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“If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction.”

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I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.

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The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.

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I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the…

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Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend.

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Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He…

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When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing…

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I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.

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I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.

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Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had…

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DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath.

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Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect…

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I'll tell you one thing: I will always play the sh** out of my guitar.

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Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

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All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war.

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One thing the young Christian should be taught as quickly as possible after his conversion is that Jesus Christ is all he needs.

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One of the noblest words in our language is "grace," defined as "unearned blessing." We live by grace far more than by anything else.…

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