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"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."

"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"

"I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one."

"You've got to clock the hours and pay your dues. Then eventually, people will come to you. You have to be patient and appreciative."

"Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values."
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"This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you."

"With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution."

"The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity."

"Everybody believes in psychiatry; it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there is no physical proof."

"Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different."
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