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"You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary - it's always imaginary - world in which I would like to live."
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"It was as if this night were only one of thousands of nights, world without end, night curving into night to make a great arching line of which I couldn't see the end, a night in which I roamed alone under cold, mindless stars."
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"This was not my moment to be seeking romance and (as day follows night) to further complicate my already knotty life. This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude."
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"A wounded heart needs aloof."
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"I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative."
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"Everything hurt. I closed my eyes, pressing my cheek to the street, and waited. What for, I didn't know. To be rescued. Or found. But no one came. All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was."
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"The time of solitude is actually an opportunity to make time work for you."
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"Solitude is a greater treasure than money."
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"In solitude, you listen to the sacred voice."
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"Alone! yesterday, today and forever."
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"I am but a stranger ... as we all are. Lonely inside our separate skins, we cannot know each others pain and must bear our own in solitude. For my part, I have found that walking soothes it; and that, given luck, sometimes we find one to walk besides us ... at least for a little way."
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"Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer."
Mind
"To my way of thinking the function of the poet is to make us aware of what we know and don't know we know."
Poetry
"Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape."
Change
"Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to the inspired and dedicated thief. Words, colors, light, sounds, stone, wood, bronze belong to the living artist. They belong to anyone who can use them. Loot the Louvre! À bas l'originalité, the sterile and assertive ego that imprisons us as it creates. Vive le vol-pure, shameless, total. We are not responsible. Steal anything in sight."
Creativity
"You know a real friend?Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone."
Friendship
"Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning."
Virtue
"Nothing is true, everything is permitted."
Nothing
"Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear."
Technology
"Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact."
Change
"You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal."
Quality
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