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“If I'm doing my job correctly, I'm presenting a scenario for you as the reader to engage with on your own. I mean that's what the best art is supposed to do.”

Quote by T.C. Boyle

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T.C. Boyle is a renowned American contemporary novelist, born on December 2, 1948. His works are characterized by unique narrative techniques and rich imagination, covering a variety of themes including history, science fiction, and realism. Boyle's novels have won numerous literary awards and he is an important representative of American literature today. more

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“I love satire. Evelyn Waugh is one of my favorite writers of all time. He's hilarious. He's so wicked. He's so great. On the other hand, pure satire is an imitation. It doesn't really have any heart. It only holds things up to ridicule.”

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“I'm sad that there no more mysterious places in the world.”

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“We are animals and we are made in this way and this is how we behave. I'm just kind of fascinated by how we can deny that we are animals and what our impact on the other animals is like, and how quixotic we can be in trying to assess what we've done in trying to correct it.”

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“I'm always trying to do something different and trying to keep myself amused.”

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