I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.
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When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.
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The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.
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Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.
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If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.
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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.
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