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" Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life. "

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" We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. "

" When I went away to college, I marveled at the wealth of bookstores around Harvard Square. "

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" My wife and I had children when we were children ourselves. "

" But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography. "

" A lot of the Koran does not speak very eloquently to a Westerner. Much of it is either legalistic or opaquely poetic. "

" Without books, we might just melt into the airwaves and be just another set of blips. "

" I never really made a choice to live in America, so I should be aware of the social strata outside of the ones that I may live in. "

" I see no intrinsic reason why a doubly talented artist might not arise and create a comic-strip novel masterpiece. "

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" For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do, they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities. "

" My transition from wanting to be a cartoonist to wanting to be a writer may have come about through that friendly opposition, that even-handed pairing, of pictures and words. "

" In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications must remain in the dark. An invented figure like Anna Karenina or Emma Bovary emerges fully into the light of understanding, which brings with it identification, sympathy and pity. "

" I seem most instinctively to believe in the human value of creative writing, whether in the form of verse or fiction, as a mode of truth-telling, self-expression and homage to the twin miracles of creation and consciousness. "

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" Eros is everywhere. It is what binds. "

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" Memories, impressions and emotions from the first 20 years on earth are most writers' main material; little that comes afterward is quite so rich and resonant. "

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