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"Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space."
"The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure."
"The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing."
"Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it."
"I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare."
"Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret."
"We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings."
"I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable."
"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering."
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"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."
"If you don't have an E-mail address, you're in the Netherworld. If you don't have your own World Wide Web page, you're a nobody."
"There is no such things as "best" in the world of individuals."
"Because as an only child, you have your own little world."
"I am not the world's greatest Negro violinist. I am the greatest violinist in the world!"
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