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"Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they're no good."
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"Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts."
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"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."
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"Probably the people on the street know better than the people at home."
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"In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass."
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"People on corporate conveyor belts, like animals in slaughter-chutes are all part of the same big massacre of joy."
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"In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of a full, dark sphere behind the crescent moon. Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, I have taught myself joy, over and over again(15)."
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"Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier."
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"Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they're no good."
Society
"It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer."
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"God doesn't need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves."
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"People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own."
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"Why does a person spend money on a stamp to spout bile at a stranger?"
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"Eating is a genuine need, continuous from our first day to our last, amounting over time to our most significant statement of what we are made of and what we have chosen to make of our connection to home ground."
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"You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own."
Identity
"A dog can't think that much about what he's doing, he just does what feels right."
Behavior
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