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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

Interview with Jannika Hurwitt, The Paris Review Interviews: Writers at Work, Sixth Series - 1979 - 1980.


The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

A Bolter and the Invincible Summer - London Magazine - May 1963.


You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.

"'A feeling of realistic optimism': An interview with Karen Lazar, Salmagundi 113 - 1997.


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