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"I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be."
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"If you have tears, prepare to shed them now."
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"When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going."
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"It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal."
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"Now, we used to say we put on our tights to put on the world. So I don't think it tarnishes the image at all."
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"So, like I said, I will visit Jeffersonville more often because I now have a little getaway house up there."
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"Now I get to pick and choose exactly what I want to do."
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"Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding."
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"I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'"
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"The rich pay more in total taxes now than ever before - ever. It's true. Just like it's true that when the rich are convinced they're going to be taxed more, they spend less. And when the top few percenters don't spend, there goes all your spending, because they account for half of all retail spending."
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"All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity."
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"I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness."
Happiness
"I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book."
Reading
"Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul."
Quality
"When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten."
Family
"I have never read a line of Walt Whitman."
Reading
"Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things."
Literature
"One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep."
Interest
"Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm."
Beginning
"I love devils."
Love
"The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn."
World
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