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Through history it's the novelist who has felt affinity for the violent man who lives in the dark. Where are your sympathies? With the colonial police, the occupier, the rich landlord, the corrupt government, the militaristic state? Or with the terrorist?
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The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. The true life takes place when we're alone, thinking feeling, lost in memory, dreamingly self-aware, the submicroscopic moments.
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The son of a bitch believes.
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But then it came time for me to make my journey—into America. [... N]o coincidence that my first novel is called Americana. That became my subject, the subject that shaped my work. When I get a French translation of one of my books that says 'translated from the American', I think, 'Yes, that's exactly right.
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Brilliant people never think of the lives they smash, being brilliant.
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I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.
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Once you live in the street, there's nothing but the street.
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Would you ask a man who bags groceries if he fears death not because it is death but because there are still some interesting groceries he would like to bag?
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The mountains here contained a sense of time, geologic time. They lay in embryo, a process unfolding, or a shriveled dying perhaps. They had the look of naked events.
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