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"If I don't feel like writing today or for a few days, I don't. And I don't think about it. It is not an obligation-it is the greatest privilege."
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"If I have never had, or worse yet, I have lost the conviction that life (despite all of the blows it wields and the savagery that it spawns) is nonetheless an incalculable privilege, I will have in that single loss forfeited the whole of my life and effectively wiped out any hope that I can or will do anything other than exist."
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"I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege."
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"What a privilege it is to be an American!"
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"Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions."
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"You are not permitted to suffer what others suffer, you are not permitted to fail or die young."
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"Among the privileges of being a superpower, the right and the ability to make a local quarrel into a global one ranks very high."
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"I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege."
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"Political correctness' is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate."
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"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free."
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"If I don't feel like writing today or for a few days, I don't. And I don't think about it. It is not an obligation-it is the greatest privilege."
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"Salzburg... is a mountain town with a rushing river running right through the center, everything in the rain various shades of green and brown."
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"It's always fun to walk down the street with or behind a really beautiful woman, for no reason other than to see how the world reacts to them."
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"Women are always complaining about men's fascination with breasts. But what if men were absolutely indifferent to breasts? What would women do then with these things that serve one function once or twice in a lifetime, and the rest of the time are just in the way?"
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"May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world."
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"Old people are often impatient, but for what?"
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"In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic."
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"At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled around in my head. I had no idea that I was obsessed with furniture."
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"Krakow is one of my favorite places on earth. It is a medieval city full of young people. A wonderful, striking combination."
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"Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one."
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"When I was in college, I was the editor of the literary magazine and insisted neither the editors nor the writers be specifically identified-only our student numbers appeared on the title page. I love that idea and still do."
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