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Old men declare war because they have failed to solve complex political and economic problems.

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Writing is an exercise in sculpture, chipping away at the rock until you find the nose.

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I don't believe less is more. I believe that more is more. I believe that less is less, fat fat, thin thin and enough is enough.

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Like most people of my generation, I fell in love with the philosophy of existentialism. There is no particular religious tradition in my work. There is only one psychological assertion that I would insist upon. That is: the SELF takes precedence.

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Life's tallest order is to keep the feelings up, to make two dollars' worth of euphoria go the distance. And life can't do that. So fiction does.

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Like a lot of what happens in novels, inspiration is a sort of spontaneous combustion--the oily rags of the head and heart.

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