"I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation."
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"War among men defiles this world."
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"It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves."
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"At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is."
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"The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover. It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal."
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"I admire all people who are trying to be a good power in this chaotic world."
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"Similarity is stasis; difference is motion. And if the two happen to exist in dynamic equilibrium, everything is right in the world."
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"Nash has been the sun lighting up the horizon of my life, outshining everything else in my world. I'd thought once that he was to good to be true. Turns out I was right."
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"I got swirling eyes and the capacity to shatter windows with my bare voice. Tod got teleportation and invisibility. The supernatural world is so far from fair."
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"What I know about this world is white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you."
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"There is too little courtship in the world."
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"On average, since the urge to kill myself isn't so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in."
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"The creator must be a world for himself and must find everything in himself and in Nature, to whom his whole life is devoted."
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"I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls."
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"Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet."
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"the world is just as concrete, ornery, vile, and sublimely wonderful as before, only now I better understand my relation to it and it to me."
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"It can be heartbreaking when you find out that your fairytale image of the world doesn't match the reality."
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"Never let a boy be your life. They can live in your world, but never make a guy your world."
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"Hearing a crowd scream is the coolest sound in the world. It can motivate me to do anything."
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"To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living."
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