"I never remain passive in the process of reading: while I read I am engaged in a constant creative activity, which leads me to remember not so much the actual matter of the book as the thoughts evoked in my mind by it, directly or indirectly."

-- Nikolai Berdyaev

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“When I am writing, I'm very much on the ground, on the same ground my characters are treading.”
“Different times need different types of leadership.”
“France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are 'made in America.'”
“The exterior image of a human being and the diverse circumstances that surround him are the exact result of his interior image and of his psychological processes.”
“No self-respecting person who loves humanity or wishes for a world of greater equality and justice should have anything to do with whitewashing the slavery and extermination of Marxism-Leninism.”
“I will not tire of declaring that if we really want an effective end to violence we must remove the violence that lies at the root of all violence: structural violence, social injustice, exclusion of citizens from the management of the country, repression. All this is what constitutes the primal cause, from which the rest flows naturally.”
“Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane”
“You start admiring someone who's famous for actually doing something---imagine that---and I swear to you I will buy you every item in her entire wardrobe. But over my own dead body will I spend my own time and money turning you into a clone of some brain-dead waste of skin who thinks the pinnacle of achievement is selling her wedding shots to a magazine.”

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