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“ I've allowed some of these points to stand, because this is a book of memory, and memory has its own story to tell. But I have done my best to make it tell a truthful story. ”

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The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness.

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a true piece of writing is a dangerous thing. It can change your life.

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There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all by themselves. Of course it's why you want to become a writer — because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.

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