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"And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just as the sun strikes raindrops at a certain angle and throws a prism of color across the sky - so the space where I exist, and want to keep existing, and to be quite frank I hope I die in, is exactly this middle distance: where despair struck pure otherness and created something sublime."
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"Stars earn their brightest colors in the dark."
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"Each moment has an unrealized dimension of beauty that only your perspective can liberate."
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"Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait."
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"True fashion should reflect deeper feelings of inner passion for life."
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"If the path is beautiful, all you have to do when walking in that path is to be beautiful so as to not ruin the beauty of the path!"
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"Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste."
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"The beauty of a woman is not in her facial makeup but in the kindness of her soul."
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"You always were beautiful, and you always will be beautiful."
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"Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused."
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"Do what is beautiful to make yourself beautiful."
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"I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for."
Experience
"So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter."
Environment
"What's worth living for? what's worth dying for? what's completely foolish to pursue?"
Meaning
"The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences."
Creativity
"I think this goes more to the idea of 'relentless irony' than 'divine providence."
Irony
"Richard Papen: As it happened, I knew Gartrell. He was a bad painter and a vicious gossip, with a vocabulary composed almost entirely of obscenities, gutteral verbs, and the world "postmodernist."
Criticism
"Is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?"
Courage
"Kids shouting and skidding in the playground with no idea what future Hells awaited them: boring jobs and ruinous mortgages and bad marriages and hair loss and hip replacements and lonely cups of coffee in an empty house and a colostomy bag at the hospital."
Anxiety
"Maybe good luck was like bad luck in that it took a while to sink in."
Luck
"One's thought patterns become different, he said, when forced into the confines of a rigid and unfamiliar tongue. Certain common ideas become inexpressible; other, previously undreamt-of ones spring to life, finding miraculous new articulation."
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