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The United States must keep what it has - diversity and tolerance - which make us what we are.

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Today the data linking violence in the media to violence in society are superior to those linking cancer and tobacco.

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We write. How fortunate we are: The world does not close in on us. The world does not grow smaller.

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I write. I imagine. The act of imagining in itself enlivens me. I am not frozen and paralyzed before the predator. I invent characters. At times I feel as if I am digging up people from the ice in which reality enshrouded them, but maybe, more than anything else, it is myself that I am now digging up.

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I like to do things that frighten me. When I’m afraid, I understand more things. I want the feeling. . . All my instincts cry out against it, every morning anew. Then I say, ‘I should do it. If I don’t do it, no one will do it for me.

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And there will be a time, not for long, a month is enough, or a week, when every single person will be able to completely fulfill what they were meant to be—everything their bodies and souls have offered them, not what other people have dumped on them.

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The primary urge that motivates and engenders writing. . . is the writer's desire to invent and tell a story, and to know himself. But the more I write, the more I feel the force of the other urge, which collaborates with and completes the first one: the desire to know the Other from within him. To feel what it means to be another person. To be able to touch, if only for a moment, the blaze that burns within another human being.

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