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In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications must remain in the dark. An invented figure like Anna Karenina or Emma Bovary emerges fully into the light of understanding, which brings with it identification, sympathy and pity.

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The writers we tend to universally admire, like Beckett, or Kafka, or TS Eliot, are not very prolific.

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There is a great deal of busywork to a writer's life, as to a professor's life, a great deal of work that matters only in that, if you don't do it, your desk becomes very full of papers. So, there is a lot of letter answering and a certain amount of speaking, though I try to keep that at a minimum.

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In any interview, you do say more or less than you mean.

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Belief, like love, must be voluntary.

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Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.

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America is beyond power; it acts as in a dream, as a face of God. Wherever America is, there is freedom, and wherever America is not, madness rules with chains, darkness strangles millions. Beneath her patient bombers, paradise is possible.

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It's sort of good to see your vocation as a daily task and have fairly modest expectations for financial or reward in other coin - glory, love, whatever.

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By the mid-17th century, telescopes had improved enough to make visible the seasonally growing and shrinking polar ice caps on Mars, and features such as Syrtis Major, a dark patch thought to be a shallow sea.

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: March 18th, 1932

Died: January 27th, 2009

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