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"Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me."
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"The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?"
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"I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?"
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"In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich."
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"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."
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"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
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"I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues."
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"The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One."
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"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."
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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
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"The world remains ever the same."
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"Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside."
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"Change, when it comes, cracks everything open."
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"Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me."
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"One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt."
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"Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning."
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"I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement."
Woman

"I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them."
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"When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels."
Romantic
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