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- I was unemployable when I got out of college.
- The worst thing about religion was religious people.
- I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early.
- Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.
- Usually my ideas are small.
- I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever.
- A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts.
- I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I am.
- The seeds of death get lost in the mess that God made us.
- In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.
- We listened to them, but it was clear they'd received too much therapy to know the truth.
- Sourmelina's secret (as Aunt Zo put it): 'Lina was one of those women they named the island after.
- Don't waste your time on life.
- We're all made up of many parts, other halves. Not just me.
- Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly
- The zipper opened all the way down our spines.
- We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the version of the world they really believed in...
- We knew that Cecilia had killed herself because she was a misfit, because the beyond called to her, and we knew that her sisters, once…
- She wanted out of the decorating scheme.
- and she had succeeded, on the second try, in hurling herself out of the world
- I don’t know what you’re feeling, I won’t even pretend
- Scars crossed her welded wrists.
- it's amazing what you can get used to.
- She had given birth to me and nursed me and brought me up. She had known me before I knew myself and now she had…
- Chunks of his life fell away, so that while we were moving ahead in time, he was moving back.
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- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento