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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.
To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.