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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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"I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal writing a try now."
Work
"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."
Love
"For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat."
Defeat
"One of the saddest realities is that we never know when our lives are at their peak. Only after it is over and we have some kind of perspective do we realize how good we had it a day, a month, five years ago."
Nostalgia
"Coffee on an airplane always smells bad. Whenever it is served, suddenly the whole cabin stinks of it."
Coffee
"People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both."
Love
"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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"May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world."
Hope
"Most men, no matter how well or badly dressed, carry overstuffed, beat up wallets that should have been replaced years ago. Why is that? Every time I see a guy take out a wallet anywhere, it looks like a piece of old melted chocolate cake-with strings."
Time
"Even the handsomest men do not have the same momentary effect on the world as a truly beautiful woman does."
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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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"You are not permitted to suffer what others suffer, you are not permitted to fail or die young."
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"Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions."
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"I just think the most difficult thing to displace is 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 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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"What a privilege it is to be an American!"
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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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"Sometimes I get a little tired of it. But you know, what a privilege, to get tired of working with Ingmar Bergman."
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