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"I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over."
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"Life is art."
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Personal Development
"Imagination is phenomenal."
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"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."
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"A creative mind is a spark of divinity."
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"Flawed genius is better than flawless talent."
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"People have many cruel expectations from writers. People expect novelists to live on a hill with three kids and a spouse, people expect children's story writers to never have sex, and people expect all great poets to be dead. And these are all very difficult expectations to fulfill, I think."
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"I write to fill my mind with the ecstasy of life."
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"If imagination is your wealth, then ideas are your abode."
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"It feels good to read book. But it is grander to write book."
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"Be daring to push your ideas forward."
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"And then she began to cry, and when I asked her why she was doing that, she said it was because I was to have a happy ending, and it was just like a book; and I wondered what books she'd been reading."
Emotion
"I was taking something away from her, although she didn't know it. I was filching. Never mind that it was something she apparently didn't want or had no use for, had rejected even; still, it was hers, and if I took it away, this mysterious "it" I couldn't quite define."
Emotion
"Falling in love, although it resulted in altered body chemistry and was therefore real, was a hormonally induced delusional state, according to him. In addition it was humiliating, because it put you at a disadvantage, it gave the love object too much power. As for sex per se, it lacked both challenge and novelty, and was on the whole a deeply imperfect solution to the problem of intergenerational genetic transfer."
Relationship
"You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself."
Emotion
"Perfection exacts a price, but it's the imperfect who pay it."
Philosophy
"I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most."
Literature
"But unshed tears can turn rancid. So can memory. So can biting your tongue. My bad nights were beginning. I couldn't sleep."
Romance
"If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There's also the environmental argument for it."
Ethics
"Could it be he was feeling a certain nostalgia for the war, despite its stench and meaningless carnage? For that questionless life of instinct?"
Emotion
"These things sneak up on him for no reason, these flashes of irrational happiness. It's probably a vitamin deficiency."
Happiness
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