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The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves the other…
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The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it…
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I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so…
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The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.
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Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed…
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Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut is not…
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The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.
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The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
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Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.
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Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death the widow…
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Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
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We are the species that clamors to be lied to.
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Art sometimes is as simple as nothing, and other times as mysterious as nature or a woman.
— Jeet Aulakh
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Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.
— Roger Stone
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We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable…
— Henri Bergson
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Science and art sometimes can touch one another, like two pieces of the jigsaw puzzle which is our human life, and that…
— M.C. Escher
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There should really not be anything gratuitous in a work of art. Sometimes what seems as if it's gratuitous may be a…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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When we seek daily spiritual guidance, we are guided toward the next step forward for our art. Sometimes the step is very…
— Julia Cameron
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How life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation.
— Stephen King
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Doing fine, thank you, I would say, never knowing how to talk about what I do. If I could talk about it,…
— Neil Gaiman
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I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not…
— Neil Gaiman
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I enjoy looking, learning, smiling, and engaging with art, sometimes even rejecting it.
— Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis
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