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"I had lines inside me, a string of guiding lights. I had language. Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination. I had been damaged, and a very important part of me had been destroyed - that was my reality, the facts of my life. But on the other side of the facts was who I could be, how I could feel. And as long as I had words for that, images for that, stories for that, then I wasn't lost."
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"Sniffing glue is a homeless nonbeliever's prayer."
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"The negative way of thinking based on constant complaints, strains, and objections of discontent steals our energy."
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"Words don't have the power to hurt you, unless that person meant more to you than you are willing to confess."
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"Who has fear? The one who has greed has fear."
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"For how long are the people who seek for the approval of others keep putting their self-worth in the hands of people?"
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"Visiting the sick' is an orgasm of superiority in the contemplation of our neighbor's helplessness."
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"Physiology and Psychology are not at all separate from each other. Rather they are deeply intertwined."
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"Overriding the old information in your mind with new information is easy, but to actually go further than just putting a veneer over your old mindset is the way forward."
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"We sometimes try to impress people we just met by not trying to impress them."
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"I'm sorry, but I do hate this differentiation between the sexes. 'The modern girl has a thoroughly businesslike attitude to life' That sort of thing. It's not a bit true! Some girls are businesslike and some aren't. Some men are sentimental and muddle-headed, others are clear-headed and logical. There are just different types of brains."
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"I think we still believe that ambition is for boys."
Ambition
"I think therefore I am. Does that mean 'I feel therefore I'm not'? But only through feeling can I get at thinking."
Philosophy
"The wider we read the freer we become."
Knowledge
"It's a symbiotic process, writing. What I am makes the books-not part of me, all of me-and then the books themselves inform the sense of what I am. So the more I can be, the better the books will be."
Creativity
"You cannot disown what is yours. Flung out, there is always the return, the reckoning, the revenge, perhaps the reconciliation. There is always the return. And the wound will take you there."
Life
"Rights begin where love ends. Shall we argue over who is the most to blame?"
Ethics
"The free man never thinks of escape."
Freedom
"Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox, that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there."
Love
"Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?"
Fantasy
"I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex."
Family
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