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" Novelists embody plural selves all the time. What are characters, after all, if not other selves? "

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" Creativity has always depended on openness and flexibility, so let us hope for more of both in the future. "

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" Nobody knows what either sleep or waking consciousness is, even though these two have long been seen as the two sides of being: part of life's unvarying diurnal rhythm. "

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" I have suffered from migraines since childhood and have long been curious about my own aching head, my dizziness, my divine lifting feelings, my sparklers and black holes, and my single visual hallucination of a little pink man and a pink ox on the floor of my bedroom. "

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