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"Fish are small, but do not drown in the sea. Ships are big, but sink in the ocean."

"Food, the stoking-up process, the keeping alive of an individual flame, the process that begins before birth and is continued after it by the mother, and finally taken over by the individual himself, who goes on day after day putting an assortment of objects into a hole in his face without becoming surprised or bored."

"I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody."

"A whale has nowhere to hide in a river."

"There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit."
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"My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble."

"They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system."

"I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical."

"When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers."

"The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave."

"I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back."

"People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?"

"I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty."
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