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"Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others."
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"Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someone working in the same genre."
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"It does not need to be perfect - or technically correct - to be magic."
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"Then may I tell you that the very next words I read were these - 'Chloe liked Olivia'. Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women."
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"For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control. I think it's very much like dreaming or like surfing. You go out there and wait for a wave, and when it comes it takes you somewhere and you don't know where it'll go."
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"If you you write with enough assurance and confidence, you're allowed to do whatever you like. So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can."
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"Then I realized the vital necessity of art. Human life, yes, you nurse people, you clean house, you market, but then comes the moment of solace and flight. i sit and write and summon other friends, other forms of life, other experiences, and the voyage and the exploration, the delving into character, the vast expanse of life's possibilities and potentialities, contemplation of future travels, of dazzling friendships, all this then makes the chores and the sacrifices beautiful because they are diverted toward some beautiful aim, they become part of the structure of a work of art."
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"Often the inspiration to write music comes from the voices in your head. You're not crazy. Just be thankful they are not making you rescue people in 20-degree weather at 2:30 in the morning in the forest."
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"The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth."
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"It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it."
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"The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?"
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"The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal."
Education
"Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear."
Will
"Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation."
Friendship
"Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation."
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"Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it."
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"A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun."
Man
"What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear."
Friendship
"From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured."
Humor
"As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man."
Happiness
"The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant."
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