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"I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits."
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"A fish that is afraid of drowning in a river is ignorant of its gifts."
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Personal Development
"We must go beyond solving our personal problems to becoming solutions and answers to all the people around us."
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"You don't have to reach for the stars if you are already shining like one."
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"Intuition is a woman's gift that comes packaged in responsibility. If we don't change the world for good, who will?"
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"Self acceptance is pure power."
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"God wants to advise us and stretch out His Almighty hand of help towards us."
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"If I am truly to become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian...I not only have to become my own husband, but I need to be my own father, too."
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"You cannot catch a whale and a fish with the same bait."
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"Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain."
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"Whether you convert that diminishing life into something or you don't convert it to anything is up to you. The life will keep on reducing and diminishing."
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"The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set-up by the non-dreamers."
Dreams
"After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'"
Management
"There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks."
Society
"May 4, 1985. I am packing for a short trip to New York to discuss the cat book with Brion. In the front room where the kittens are kept, Calico Jane is nursing one black kitten. I pick up my Tourister. It seems heavy. I look inside and there are her other four kittens."Take care of my babies. Take them with you wherever you go."
Care
"The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing."
Love
"My characters are quite as real to me as so-called real people, which is one reason why I'm not subject to what is known as loneliness. I have plenty of company."
Loneliness
"I don't spot junk neighbourhoods by the way they look, but by the feel, somewhat the same process by which a dowser locates hidden water. I am walking along and suddenly the junk in my cells moves and twitches like the dowsers wand: 'Junk here!"
Addiction
"Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer."
Mind
"Nobody's busting into YOUR apartment at three in the morning, are they? Well, then don't worry about what they're doing in South Korea and places like that. It's like the standard of living. Are you content to achieve your higher standard of living at the expense of people all over the world who've got a lower standard of living? Most Americans would say yes. Now we ask the question, are you content to enjoy your political freedom at the expense of people who are less free? I think they would also say yes."
Ethics
"There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing... I am a recording instrument... I do not presume to impose "story "plot "continuity... Insofar as I succeed in Direct recording of certain areas of psychic process I may have limited function... I am not an entertainer..."
Writing
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