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The true journey is not about seeing new landscapes, but about having new eyes.
The novel is a mirror that reflects not what is, but what could be.
Exile is not a place, it's a condition.
The real prison is not the one made of iron bars, but the one made of fear.
The world is not what it seems to be; it is what we believe it to be.
Home is not where you live but where they understand you.
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
The greatest crimes are committed not in the name of evil, but in the name of good.
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
We do not see things as they are; we see them as we are.
"Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie."
"A story is not a message with a plot wrapped around it, but a plot that may contain a message."
The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again.
Literature isn't a moral beauty contest.
The past is always changing. It is not fixed. The past is not stable.
Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.