One of my rigid goals is to keep each book under 300 pages because I think so much nonfiction is literally weighty that people don't get through these books, ... If people don't finish your book, then they don't know what you're talking about.
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I always go for the sex and violence, ... If you can be great, you should talk about love and death. And if you can only be good, you should talk about sex and violence. Those are the things people are perennially interested in.
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(The festival) was awfully impersonal and abstract and there was something really gloomy about it, ... That's when I first started thinking about the typical view of reality.
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It must be hell on a writer who is introverted and doesn't really want to talk to people,
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I would like to restore, to the West, its genealogy, ... We have less and less history and it seems to me if you don't know where you came from you're an orphan and you don't know really who you are. You don't know your own name.
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