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The gift of language is the single human trait that marks us all genetically, setting us apart from the rest of life.
The writer must be a traitor to all forms of tyranny, including the tyranny of the majority.
The writer must be a perpetual outsider, a critic of all power.
The writer must be a perpetual questioner, a doubter of all certainties.
The writer must be a traitor to all orthodoxies.
Literature is the most subversive of all arts because it works in secret, in the reader’s mind.
The writer must be a heretic, a questioner of all absolutes.
The writer must be a perpetual outsider, a critic of all orthodoxies.
The novel is the most democratic of all art forms because it depends only on the reader’s imagination.
The novel is the only place where all contradictions can coexist.
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
All autobiography is storytelling, all writing is autobiography.
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.