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- The older I get the more secrets I have, never to be revealed and this, I know, is a common condition of people my age.…
- What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when…
- I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and,…
- This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer…
- You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all…
- Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I…
- I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature innacurate
- Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit for…
- When I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other…
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