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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.

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The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.

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There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o'clock, and start writing at once.

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Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.

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Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

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If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

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Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

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If I am constantly working, my relationships fail. So at least now I can have enough time to write a happy record. And be in love and be happy.

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Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.

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I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.

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I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and sit on your couch.

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In the marginalia ... we talk only to ourselves; we therefore talk freshly - boldly - originally - with abandonment - without conceit.

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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one... ...I had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon. Since I was little I've liked Russian literature, but I find that I like Dostoevsky the best and had long thought that this book would make a wonderful film. He is still my favourite author, and he is the one - I still think - who writes most honestly about human existence.

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I'm uncomfortable trying to rush change of perception, except to the extent that I'm going to write a book.

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We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings.

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It is a miserable thing to have people writing about your private life while you are alive. I have tried to stop it all that I could but there have been many abuses by people I trusted. You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.

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When a woman writes you a poem, she spends time with the gods on your behalf.

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The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.

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Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.

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What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness.

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