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I never fantasized or invented a thing, not one thing. I knew every single thing I ever wrote about.

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All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe.

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Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.

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I think most people don't like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly don't want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.

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I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career.

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All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.

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The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women.

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I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer.

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Dreiser... I love... and almost wouldn't speak to anyone who ever attacked him.

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If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.

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I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.

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Its liquor is like the sweetest dew from Heaven.

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Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

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The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.

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We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.

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We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

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The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.

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All reactionaries are paper tigers.

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I voted for you during your last election.

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Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

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