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Education is for growth and fulfillment.

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Most Americans pay lip service to the idea of freedom, but can't handle real freedom.

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A writer needs a life of introspection.

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What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy.

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If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering.

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Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.

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I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.

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Most novelists write about twisted lives.

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Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.

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The gods have chosen to entertain me with chronic eyestrain headaches. Very poisonous episodes. So I don't do a lot of reading anymore except on tape.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: July 22nd, 1936

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