A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
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A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.
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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
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Our lives teach us who we are.
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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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