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Screw guilt -- I could have sex with 10 men and it wouldn't bother me. I'm an atheist!

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I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.

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The vitality of a culture is in its capacity to assimilate foreign influences. The culture that's defensive and closed condemns itself to decadence.

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The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.

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In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony.

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The fundamental purpose of a novel like Count Julian is to achieve the unity of object and means of representation, the fusion of treason as scheme and treason as language.

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In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.

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