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"My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected."
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"I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know."
"I love reading I know it's very important and I respect anyone that is patient enough to do it."
"I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out."
"There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite."
"I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood."
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"The tamer my love, the farther away it is from love. In fierceness, in heat, in longing, in risk, I find something of love's nature. In my desire for you, I burn at the right temperature to walk through love's fire. So when you ask me why I cannot love you more calmly, I answer that to love you calmly is not to love you at all."
"St. Paul said it is better to marry than to burn, but my mother taught me it is better to burn than to marry."
"There are only three possible endings -aren't there? - to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories end like that."
"I dream of flight, not to be as the angels are, but to rise above the smallness of it all. The smallnesss that I am. Against the daily death the iconography of wings."
"You'll get over it. It's the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life forever. You don't get over it because it is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you, and no one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?"
"Saddest of all are the woman who were brought up to believe that self-sacrifice is the highest female virtue."
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