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From now on I hope always to stay alert, to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in Future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to ...more

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Writing keeps death at bay. Every book I write is a triumph over death. ... If we did not know we’d die, we’d wander around and sleep like cats.

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Creativity is a continual surprise.

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Last night I thought about all that kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man ...more

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We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe

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That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.