“ Depression is melancholy minus its charms – the animation, the fits. ”
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“ All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation. ”
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“ Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged, literature is freedom. ”
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“ There is a great deal that either has to be given up or be taken away from you if you are going to succeed in writing a body of work. ”
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“ 10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction. ”
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“ The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects – making it possible… to see a new beauty in what is vanishing. ”
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“ The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities. ”
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“ This is the beauty that emerges from self-confidence, class confidence. That says, I am not born to please. I am born to be pleased. ”
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“ A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness. ”
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“ I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting. ”
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“ All struggle, all resistance is — must be — concrete. And all struggle has a global resonance. If not here, then there. If not now, then soon. Elsewhere as well as here. ”
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“ To make your life being a writer, it’s an auto. slavery…you are both the slave and the task. master. ”
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“ It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin. ”
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“ The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is. ”
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“ Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager. ”
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“ A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world." [Speech upon being awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (Peace Prize of the German Book Trade), Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003] ”
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“ The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guiltridden oneor both. Usually both. ”
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“ If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity that that. ”
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