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A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.
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With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.
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I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.
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It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
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There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.
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We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.
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There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
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Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
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Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
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