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Interesting verbs are seldom very interesting.
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I've moved away from that sort of deep-ecological extremism. I started to think: what can we do for wild birds right now?…
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[T]o love a specific person, and to identify with his or her struggles and joys as if they were your own, you…
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Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance
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If multiculturalism succeeds in making us a nation of independently empowered tribes, each tribe will be deprived of the comfort of victimhood…
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How could I have thought that I needed to cure myself in order to fit into the 'real' world? I didn't need…
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Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had abandoned by…
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Readers and writers are united in their need for solitude, in their pursuit of substance in a time of ever-increasing evanescence: in…
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If you want to have friends, you have to remember that nobody's perfect.
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The writer’s life is a life of revisions.
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When you stay in your room and rage or sneer or shrug your shoulders, as I did for many years, the world…
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If you read the biographies of people who have written good books, you often see the point where they suddenly come into…
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Wright's building made it socially and culturally acceptable for an architect to design a highly expressive, intensely personal museum. In this sense…
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My work is intensely personal.
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Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be…
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Belief transcends ritual, structure and societal expectation. It is an enlivening, intensely personal core to our being. Our way of being.
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I wrote lyrics that were intensely personal to me a few years ago. Maybe people know me better now.
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Television is intensely personal.
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There is no choice more intensely personal, after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice tells us, to a large…
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In the modern industrialized Western world, where I come from, the person whom you choose to marry is perhaps the single most…
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Everything he'd done with regard to her in the last three years had been calculated to foreclose the intensely personal sort of…
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When we love something, emotion often drives our actions. This is the gift and the challenge entrepreneurs face every day. The companies…
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Love is a funny thing. It's an intensely personal yet universal thing. It has a thousand definitions and not one of them…
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