A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey.

Anthony Burgess
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  1. When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.

  2. Life's only choosing when to die. Life's a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It's a tremendous relief not to have to choose.

  3. We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.

  4. Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.

  5. People don't want to know. They have to be made to know. Whether they act on what they know is up to them. But they have to know.

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