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Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

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Don't leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.

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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.

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I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.

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I'd like to see the bay cleaned up before I die.

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Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons.

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The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.

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It's becoming very much like 1979 again.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: September 4th, 1908

Died: November 28th, 1960

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