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"You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself."
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"For every natural law inherent in creation, there is the creator's precision."
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"Restoring order of my personal universe suddenly seemed imperative, as I refolded my T-shirts, stuffed the toes of my shoes with tissue paper, and arranged all the bills in my secret stash box facing the same way, instead of tossed in sloppy and wild, as if by my evil twin. All week, I kept making lists and crossing things off them, ending each day with a sense of great accomplishment eclipsed only by complete and total exhaustion."
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"I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can't think of anything else. Well, so did I once, but that was before the egg and I."
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"Even freedom needs some rules to keep it from being complete chaos."
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"Things refuse to be mismanaged for long."
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"I thought if I followed the rules, things would turn out all right. that's the thing about the cure, isn't it? It isn't just about deliria at all. It's about order. A path for everyone. You just have to follow it and everything will be okay. That's what the DFA is about. That's what I belevied in-what I've had to believe in. Because otherwise, it's just...chaos."
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"But when the world is, indeed, in chaos, then an affirmation of cosmos becomes essential."
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"I have to be in a relationship in order to be intimate. I'm not the one-night-stand kind of girl. Despite the rumors."
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"Think about Isis, Jaz repeated. "And Sadie, thereis a purpose. You taught us that. We choose to believe in Ma'at. We create order out of chaos, beauty and meaning out of ugly randomness. That's what Egypt is all about. That's why its name, its ren, has endured for millennia. Don't despair. Otherwise Chaos wins."
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"I was so anxious to succeed that I made a practice of appearing on all the disc jockey shows I could, in order to publicize the band."
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"It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions."
Emotional


"Metaphor is embodied in language."
Language


"The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?"
Metaphor


"That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness."
Vision


"God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names."
God


"There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work."
Work


"The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself."
Work


"The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose."
Knowledge


"Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality."
Childhood


"To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there."
Love
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