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I am not attracted to writers by style. What style do Dickens, Grass, and Vonnegut have in common? How silly! I am attracted to what makes them angry, what makes them passionate, what outrages them, what they applaud and find sympathetic in human beings and what they detest about human beings, too. They are writers of great emotional range.

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Keep passing the open windows.

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It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

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You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

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It's not right to hurt or deceive someone who's already been hurt and deceived.

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We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.

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People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers.

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If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.

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Human sexuality makes farcical our most serious intentions.

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