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"Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions."
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"If I don't feel like writing today or for a few days, I don't. And I don't think about it. It is not an obligation-it is the greatest privilege."

"You are not permitted to suffer what others suffer, you are not permitted to fail or die young."

"If I have never had, or worse yet, I have lost the conviction that life (despite all of the blows it wields and the savagery that it spawns) is nonetheless an incalculable privilege, I will have in that single loss forfeited the whole of my life and effectively wiped out any hope that I can or will do anything other than exist."

"I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege."

"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free."

"I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege."

"Sometimes I get a little tired of it. But you know, what a privilege, to get tired of working with Ingmar Bergman."

"Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions."
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"Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom."

"The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities."
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