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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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Personal Development
"I find beauty in every sacred moment."
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Personal Development
"Life becomes difficult when out of sync with your heart-felt desires."
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Personal Development
"I love the ride of life."
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Personal Development
"Better to be dirty than dead."
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Personal Development
"God is not ecstatic about the lack you are experiencing; He is not delightful over your failures, He is not happy about your stagnancy."
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"The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency."
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Personal Development
"To get matured, you must have an education in the School of Solitude!"
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"In silence we are loving and kind, in a crowd we become blind."
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"Happiness is not defined by how much money you possess."
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"If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire."
Writing
"The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors."
Writing
"Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization."
Art
"Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great."
People
"These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected."
Life
"In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc."
Experience
"I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique."
Honesty
"I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be."
Writing
"As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together."
Identity
"I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit."
Creativity
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