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Quotes by Writer
"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."
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"Rage is really only for the good days. The truth is there's little of that left. the truth is that the forms I see have been slowly emptied out. They no longer have any content. They are shapes only. A train, a wall, a world. Or a man. A thing dangling in senseless articulation in a howling void. No meaning to its life. Its words. Why would I seek the company of such a thing? Why?"
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"I'm all alone, but I'm not lonely."
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"I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled."
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"If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive."
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"Here's what I love: when a great writer turns me into a Jew from Chicago, a lesbian out of South Carolina, or a black woman moving into a subway entrance in Harlem. Turn me into something else, writers of the world. Make me Muslim, heretic, hermaphrodite. Put me into a crusader's armor, a cardinal's vestments. Let me feel the pygmy's heartbeat, the queen's breast, the torturer's pleasure, the Nile's taste, or the nomad's thirst. Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back."
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"Stop looking for a partner. Focus on your goals and rebuilding your life. The right person will eventually find their way to you."
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"I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable."
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"By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don't hesitate."
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"If I play hard to get, soon the phone stops ringing altogether."
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"Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. Tell yourself enough vivid stories about the worst possible outcome of your work and you'll soon come to believe them. Worry is not preparation, and anxiety doesn't make you better."
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"Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt."
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"Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken."
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"The superfluous is very necessary."
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"Feminism is a good venue for getting yourself across as much as for getting your point across."
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"I certainly believe it's over for the jury system, but we won't admit it for a while."
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"The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands."
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"If much in the world were mystery the limits of that world were not, for it was without measure or bound and there were contained within it creatures more horrible yet and men of other colors and beings which no man has looked upon and yet not alien none of it more than were their own hearts alien in them, whatever wilderness contained there and whatever beasts."
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"I looked at her. Sheila was my girl--the girl I wanted--and wanted for keeps. But it wasn't any use having illusions about her. Sheila was a liar and probably always would be a liar. It was her way of fighting for survival--the quick easy glib denial. It was a child's weapon--and she'd probably never got out of using it. If I wanted Sheila, I must accept her as she was--be at hand to prop up the weak places. We've all got our weak places. Mine were different from Sheila's, but they were there."
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"Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly."
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"Logic works, metaphysics contemplates."
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"Trust yourself. You've survived a lot, and you'll survive whatever is coming."
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"Though we hear various reports of his existence we can never find the young wizard who is able so they say to graft the soul of a girl to the soul of her lover so that not even the sharp scissors of the Fates can ever sever them apart."
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"The stories get passed on and the truth gets passed over. As the sayin goes. Which I reckon some would take as meanin that the truth cant compete. but I dont believe that. I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It don't move about from place to place and it dont change from time to time. You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt. You cant corrupt it because that's what it is."
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"Do you wrestle with dreams? Do you contend with shadows? Do you move in a kind of sleep? Time has slipped away. Your life is stolen. You tarried with trifles, Victim of your folly."
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