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I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.

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For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.

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I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial.

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My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

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I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.

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I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.

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I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.

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I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week.

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I have no television - I hate it.

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I don't set the alarm to get up. I get up when I feel like it.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: January 19th, 1921

Died: February 4th, 1995

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