There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
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The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.
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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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