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"In family matters you can get over anything. That's one thing you'll learn as an adult. There's a lot you have to learn which is a lot worse than that. You'd never think of forgiving a friend for some of the things your parents did to you. But with friends it's different. Friends aren't the roll of the dice."
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"I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What I sought was the sense of being tossed about by some raging, savage force, in the midst of which lay something absolutely crucial. I had no idea what that was. But I wanted to thrust my hand right inside her body and touch it, whatever it was."
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"Distance is not a gulf but a bridge between lovers."
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"I prefer having sex with myself rather than with someone who wants something instead."
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"We are loved way more by some of the people who have not contacted us in the last twelve or so months than we are loved by some of those who contact us every twelve or so days - or hours."
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"It began with a hello, and ended in hell."
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"Lovers look in the pants, they look in the eyes."
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"Often in close relationships, the subject being discussed is not the subject at all."
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"Love is Love no matter old you are, and I knew if I gave you enough time, you'd come back to me."
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"I learned that we may meet a true love and that our lives may be transformed by such an encounter even when it does not lead to sexual pleasure, committed bonding, or even sustained contact. The myth of true love-that fairy-tale vision of two souls who meet, join, and live happily ever thereafter-is the stuff of childhood fantasy. Yet many of us, female and male, carry these fantasies into adulthood and are unable to cope with the reality of what it means to either have an intense life-altering connection that will not lead to an ongoing relationship or to be in a relationship. True love does not always lead to happily ever after, and even when it does sustaining love still takes work."
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"When the family is destroyed, society eventually disintegrates."
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"My father managed to change his entire life after I wrote a novel about his brutal regime as a family man. It took resoluteness and courage for my father to change, and I need to acknowledge that."
Life
"Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into a lucid form and forcing them into the tightfitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear."
Philosophy
"I was born in the age of "alas"."
Philosophy
"There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory."
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"Basketball allowed me to revere my father without him knowing what I was up to. I took up basketball as a form of homage and mimicry."
Success
"I never seemed to learn from joy, I earned my portion of wisdom through sadness."
Wisdom
"Though I've never met a teacher who was not happy in retirement, I rarely meet one who thinks that their teaching life was not a grand way to spend a human life. The unhappy ones are the young ones, those who must teach in public schools when the whole nation seems at war with the very essence of teaching."
Life
"You have to pay for this view (onto which he looks while writing), so our expenses keep us pretty motivated to write. It's a vicious cycle."
Philosophy
"When you write by hand, you don't have the excessive freedom of a computer. When I write down something, I have to be serious about it. I have to ask myself, "Is this necessary at this point in the book?"
Freedom
"A man's only got so many yeses inside him before he uses them all up."
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