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“[I]t is the writer's duty to write fiction which promotes virtue, the good, the beautiful, and above all, the true. ... It is the writer's duty to hate injustice, to defy the powerful, and to speak for the voiceless. To be ... the severest critics of our own societies.”
― Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
― Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

“If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five

“Real smarts begin when you quit quoting other people…â€�..”
― Pygmy
― Pygmy

“Women were like rivers, their banks were unreachable, the night often rang with the cries of the drowned.”
― Frost
― Frost

“There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
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