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I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

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There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.

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There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.

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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.

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By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.

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Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

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Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: March 1st, 1914

Died: April 16th, 1994

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