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" A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain. "
Life
Die
Death
" American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous. "
More
Stand
American
" America was and is the immigrant's dream. "
Immigrant
America
Dream
" Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom. "
Invented
Alone
Concept
" Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there. "
He
End
Truth
" For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking. "
Thinking
Form
Me
" Hardship makes the world obscure. "
World
Hardship
Obscure
" I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation. "
Anything
Explanation
Life
" I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language. "
Language
Kind
Beauty
" If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely. "
You
Work
Enjoy
" I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like. "
Construction
Look
Mean
" In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act. "
Only
Meaningful
Repetition
" In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic. "
Little
Technology
Everything
" I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore. "
Want
Job
Just
" I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it. "
Understand
Way
Wedding
" I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts. "
Years
Study
Four
" I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions? "
Think
Three
Will
" I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism. "
More
Movies
Think
" I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood. "
Sense
Childhood
Work
" It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain. "
Me
Eating
People
" It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture. "
Picture
Independence
First
" I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs. "
Feel
Belong
Always
" I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence. "
Through
Always
Begin
" I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version. "
Book
Think
Europe
" I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else. "
Movies
Documentaries
Watch
" May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan. "
Advance
Plan
May
" Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted. "
Want
Company
Know
" Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies. "
Power
Own
Never
" One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language. "
Integrity
Truth
Language
" People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power. "
Way
Who
Secret
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