"That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter."
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"What is true is that I have at times earned my own crust of bread, and at other times a friend has given it to me out of the goodness of his heart. I have lived whatever way I could, for better or for worse, taking things just as they came."
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"The creative part of oneself finds its way out. In this case, I got interested particularly in the medium of Twitter and looked for ways to use it creatively."
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"Not all coincidence has to be loaded with meaning. Sometimes, things simply recur because that's how it is in life, that's how the mood gets in. It's good to subtly overdo it too, as Nabokov does, as Sebald does. It's a good way to intensify that region of localized weather that we call a novel."
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"Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let's face it."
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"Everything appears to me to be authored, in some strange way. And I wonder if this is not the spreading assumption of the psychedelic illusion/delusion/revelation that life is in fact art."
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"If reality is code, then it can be hacked in some way that we had not suspected before."
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"It seems to me that it is psyche in a way that has become occluded by the perverse development of language."
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"History is anomalous, and there is no way to get used to it."
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"We're all haunted in one way or another, are we not? If not by spirits, then by our own demons and regrets."
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"There is the easy way and there is my way."
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"Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?"
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"She shook her head slowly. “I don’t believe you. You can’t be a cop.” “Not a cop.” “Federal agent?” “FBI.” “Even more unlikely.” “J. Edgar rolls over in his grave every day, but that’s the way it is."
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"The only way to save Social Security is to raise the retirement age."
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"We as Republicans have taken the easy way out a lot of times."
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"We didn't create ISIS - ISIS created themselves, but we will stop them, and one of the ways we stop them is by not funding them, and not arming them."
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"The one way, possibly, out of this is for [Bashar] Assad to abdicate and plead, perhaps to Russia or somewhere else. Would save another wave of civilian casualties if we could get him to abdicate."
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"In 1619, when there are reports about the first blacks brought to British North America, they are referred to as N-I-G-G-U-H-S. Well, it doesn't seem that that was meant in a derogatory way. It seems merely descriptive."
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"Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves."
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"Just call in at the torturer on your way out. See when he can fit you in."
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