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Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn’t know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn’t know he was a novelist either.

— John Irving Interview in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews (1988)

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You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

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