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It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies- it seeped in with…
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A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world.
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Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to…
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Our children will be born of our actions. Our accidents will become their destinies. Oh, the actions will remain. It is a…
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But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small…
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Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy.
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Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is…
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Sometimes I think my whole professional life has been based on this hunch I had, early on, that many people feel just…
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I remember so clearly, in the early days, if I had to do a piece of press, they'd phone for me and…
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It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties.
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Work on a computer that is disconnected from the internet.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of…
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Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
— Jean Cocteau
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Matt and I have set a date. Matt and I will tie the knot New Years Day in the town of Swampscott,…
— Ben Affleck
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Because the demands on the goalie are mostly mental, it means that for a goalie the biggest enemy is himself. Not a…
— Ken Dryden
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Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never…
— William Butler Yeats
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When you have no idea how to surrender and you're tied up in knots, JUST BREATHE!
— Judith Orloff
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Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the…
— Philip Sidney
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To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand…
— Swami Vivekananda
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I am an artist because the knot is so powerful I just can not, nor want to be, anything else or do…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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A knot you are of damned bloodsuckers.
— William Shakespeare
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Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate; And many a Knot unravel'd by…
— Omar Khayyam
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When we forgive someone, the knots are untied and the past is released.
— Reshad Feild
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