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We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate…
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I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,…
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
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I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was…
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The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.
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Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing.
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Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the…
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I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.…
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The phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious. There are objects approximating the shape of a disc, some of which…
— Nathan Farragut Twining
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We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross…
— Charles Horton Cooley
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It is in some ways more troublesome to track and swat an evasive wasp than to shoot, at close range, a wild…
— C.S. Lewis
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He's lost something, some illusion I used to think was necessary to him. He's come to realize he too is human. Or…
— Margaret Atwood
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Sometimes when an idea flashes, you distrust it because it seems too easy. You qualify it with all kinds of evasive phrases…
— Saul Bass
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Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving…
— Harold Brodkey
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And sometimes it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain.…
— Margaret Atwood
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If one leads them with administrative measures and uses punishments to make them conform, the people will be evasive, but if one…
— Confucius
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