Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.
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The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.
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Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame.
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Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.
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Beware of a man with manners.
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I believe in it, and I trust it too and treasure it above everything, the personal, the personal, the personal I put my faith in it not only as the source, the ground of meaning in art, in life, but as the meaning itself.
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