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"How did I get to be a grown-up? At times, I find myself still sitting on the hillside, plotting revenge against the adult world."
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"No adultery is bloodless."
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"One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed."
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"That goes against what I believe morally. That's adultery, and if I'm accused of that, no, that's not right. I have two kids who see that and remember that and judge me. It didn't happen, and it's not to be reported that way."
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"I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were...miserable creatures who scoured the earth in search of something to hurt. And then there were people like my parents, who walked around zombically, doing whatever they had to do to keep walking around."
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"As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note."
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"Realizing that many you once thought the world of are nothing but glorified assholes means you've grown up."
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"As an adult, be child-like as you learn but not child-ish as you live."
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"How did I get to be a grown-up? At times, I find myself still sitting on the hillside, plotting revenge against the adult world."
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"Autobiography is now as common as adultery and hardly less reprehensible."
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"Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up."
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"I went for years not finishing anything. Because of course when you finish something you can be judged.... I had poems which were rewritten so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out."
Creativity
"And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."
Risk
"You're afraid of criticism,' she says. 'But criticism is a sign of life! You know who doesn't get criticized? Nonentities! Only the dead escape criticism."
Criticism
"Fame turns out to be a powerful instrument of grace because it humbles its chosen victims in a hurry. You sail into it, your canvas swelled with grandiosity, and when your fifteen minutes are over and you are becalmed, you realize that grandiosity cannot take you where you need to go.Only then do you learn to row like hell, asking God for the strength to stay afloat."
Fame
"I had forgotten how awful it was to be a woman alone--the leering glances, the catcalls, the offers of help which you dared not accept for fear of incurring a sexual debt. The awful sense of vulnerability. No wonder I had gone from man to man and always wound up married. How could I have left Bennett? How could I have forgotten?"
Sensitivity
"Husband and wife have no time left to spend together. Marriage took away our one reason for getting married."
Marriage
"Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart."
Art
"In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving."
Friendship
"You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy."
Woman
"Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life."
Liberation
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