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"I wonder what it is that the people who criticize me for telling this story truly object to: is it that I have dared to tell the story? Or that the story turns out not to be the one they wanted to hear?"
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood."
Home
"Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power."
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"I compromised my ability to tell my story, at the most basic level."
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"The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval."
Fear
"Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals."
Being
"A person who deserves my loyalty receives it."
Loyalty
"The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn."
Parenting
"I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story."
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"The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art."
Art
"My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?"
Money
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