"We feel the same emotions for our ideas as we do for the real world, which is why we can cry while reading a book, or fall in love with movie stars."

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I think someday you're going to be a great writer," he said. "But" he added maliciously, "first you'll have to suffer a bit. I mean really suffer, because you don't know what the word means yet. You only think you've suffered. You've got to fall in love first.

— Henry Miller