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"Like editing, gardening requires infinite patience; it requires an essential selflessness, and optimism."
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"You can either buy clothes or buy pictures," she said. "It's that simple. No one who is not very rich can do both. Pay no attention to your clothes and no attention at all to the mode, and buy your clothes for comfort and durability, and you will have the clothes money to buy pictures."
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"The bed is just a decoration in a busy man's bedroom."
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"Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste."
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"Never miss day without a walk."
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"A person who is in a constant rat race seldom has time to think whether or not he is living his life properly."
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"Never ask while you are doing it if what you are doing is fun. Don't introduce even your most reliably witty acquaintance as someone who will set the table on a roar."
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"A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu."
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"The sedentary life...is the real sin against the holy spirit."
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"It might be a little silly for someone getting to be my age to put this into words, but I just want to make sure I get the facts down clearly : I'm the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I'm the type of person who doesn't find it painful to be alone. I find spending an hour or two everyday running alone, not speaking to anyone as well as four of five hours at my desk, to be neither difficult or boring."
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"I believe in a glamorous life. I believe in the everyday application of the outrageous."
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"Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light."
Nature
"It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim."
Being
"Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate."
Love
"Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves."
Nothing
"Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are."
Change
"Still, I am angry with him. I am very angry with him. With my poor dead defenseless husband, I am furious as I was rarely-perhaps never-furious with him, in life. How can I forgive you, you've ruined both our lives."
Emotion
"In love there are two things - bodies and words."
Love
"Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind."
Creativity
"He had no idea of my misery. It would have surprised him to think that I was a human creature with a soul."
Life
"I feel very transparent in myself. I'm more of an observer. I'm interested in what's going on. I'm not sure that I really have a personality. Some people think I do have a personality. I have a personality when I am with certain people - but when I'm not with them I don't have that personality. I just sort of go back to resembling a transparent glass of water."
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