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"The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in."
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"The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties."
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"My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down."
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"The way out of trouble is never as simple as the way in."
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"No untroubled day has ever dawned for me."
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"I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf."
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"I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock."
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"Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb."
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"Every writer I know has trouble writing."
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"Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you."
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"When trouble ends even troubles please."
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"It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions."
Emotional


"Metaphor is embodied in language."
Language


"The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?"
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"That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness."
Vision


"God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names."
God


"There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work."
Work


"The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself."
Work


"The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose."
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"Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality."
Childhood


"The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in."
Trouble
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