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"I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."
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"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"
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"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."
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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."
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"Who, being loved, is poor?"
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"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."
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"When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not."
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"I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes."
Being
"Because I've lived in one room my entire life, working at the same table that you use to pay bills at and eat at. It's going to be nice to have actual space."
Life
"And I tend to listen to NPR when I'm not writing."
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"I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere."
Love
"Reading takes solitude and it takes focus."
Focus
"I never listen to music when I write."
Music
"The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work."
Life
"I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it."
Advertising
"My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day."
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