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"A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person."
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"Then, I started running. And everything was as good as it could be."
"Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives."
"The Canadian run can be no different, at least in terms of actual running."
"I found them uncomfortable and after that I decided to continue running barefoot because I found it more comfortable. I felt more in touch with what was happening - I could actually feel the track."
"I never got to the point when I felt like running away from it all."
"Running is still running. It doesn't matter if it's a physical move from one place to another or if it's to within yourself."
"When you've got eight or nine or ten cables running around with someone trying to operate them, it's too much."
"I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises."
"You have to keep running. I always believed I was going to be safe."
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"The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy."
"I want so much for my lover. At night when our beds are drawn close together I waken and see his dear yellow head on the pillow - sometimes his arm thrown over on my bed - and I kiss his hand, very softly so that it will not waken him."
"I think we will have a boy baby and he will be born on the 20th of August. Everyone else has a girl baby and at times I don't believe I should mind having a little Phyllis Dawn but Dearest wants a boy and I do."
"Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement."
"The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power)."
"Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out."
"A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person."
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