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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Makes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hardship makes the world obscure.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
America was and is the immigrant's dream.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.
- Form
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.
- Quit
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- Nov 07, 2020
I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.
- Moon
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- Nov 07, 2020
I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it.
- Communication
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- Nov 07, 2020
I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
People will always make comparisons.
- Nov 07, 2020
Rushdie is a hostage.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.
- Crowds
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- Nov 07, 2020
The future belongs to crowds.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
The language of my books has shaped me as a man.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.
- Moral
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.
- Mystery
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.
- Jail
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.
- Concept
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- Nov 07, 2020
Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020