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"Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble."
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"A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer."
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"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too. If she doesn’t show up invited, eventually she just shows up"
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"I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on."
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"Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience."
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"Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine - how good how fine. It went down all pulpy, slushy, oozy, all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large, beatified Strawberry."
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"Given that there are seven billion people living on this earth, there is a consistent quantity of imbecile or idiot, okay. Previously, these people could express themselves only with their friends or at the bar after two or three glasses of something, and they said every silliness, and people laughed. Now they have the possibility to show up on the internet. And so, on the internet, along with the messages of a lot of interesting and important people - even the Pope is writing on Twitter - we have a great quantity of idiots."
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"The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write lies, or nonsense, or to tear the pages."
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"I hate government. I'm apolitical. Write that down. I'm not a Republican."
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"Got a long list of ex-lovers, they'll tell you I'm insane. But I got a blank space baby, and I'll write your name."
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"I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias."
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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story."
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"The main thing is to make history, not to write it."
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"Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness."
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"Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism."
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"Poetic justice, poetic justice.. if I told you that a flower bloom in a dark room would you trust it. I mean I write poems in these songs."
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"It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it's off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think."
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"The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment."
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