"The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question."
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"and she realized that she (her soul) was not at all involved, only her body, her body alone. The body that had betrayed her and that she had sent out into the world among other bodies."
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"The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead."
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"Aren't we living in a world where heedless men only desire decapitated women?"
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"If our planet has seen some eighty billion people it is difficult to suppose hat every individual has had his or her own repertory of gestures. Arithmetically, it is simply impossible. Without the slightest doubt, there are far fewer gestures in the world than there are individuals. That finding leads us to a shocking conclusion: a gesture is more individual than an individual. We could put it in the form of an aphorism: many people, few gestures."
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"Draw a line; draw a line that pleases you. And remember that it is not the artist's role to copy the outlines of things but to create a world of his own lines on paper." (pp.28-29)"
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"I will maintain it before the whole world."
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"He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him."
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"Is the U.S. better or is the world better? Is the U.S. better off today than we were four years ago? Obviously not, economically not. I think our stature in the world is not the same."
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"I think there's something that's fascist [in Donald Trump's election], and something that I think we could probably learn from, in terms of the energy in the world right now."
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"My friends and I have all been super motivated to work and to do the work that we need to and want to and think should be in the world."
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"The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God."
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"When I draw, I rule the world."
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"Someone stole my bicycle and I said I was going to learn to fight so that I could catch him and beat him up. But I never did catch him. But I ended up the champ of the whole world."
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""I'm the greatest thing that ever lived! I'm the king of the world! I'm a bad man. I'm the prettiest thing that ever lived. I shook up the world! I want justice...""
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"I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world."
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"Money commands everything because that's our interpretation of capitalism ... what kind of world is that? It's a very uncomfortable interpretation of a human being. We have been turned into robots."
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"There isn't a new sorrow in the world -- they're all old ones -- but we can all find new happiness if we look in the right way."
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"But somewhere on the great world the sun is always shining, and, just so sure as you live, it will sometime shine on you."
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"There is a great deal of trouble in this world which is not caused by people keeping their mouths shut."
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