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• A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
• Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
• If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do…
• America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned,…
• It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.
• In New York the sky is bluer, and the grass is greener, and the girls are prettier, and the steaks are thicker,…
• Funny, isn't it, how your whole life goes by while you think you're only planning the way you're going to live it?
• I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination,…
• I'm tired of hearing you men say that this and that and the other isn't woman's work. Any work is woman's work…
• A story must simmer in its own juice for months or even years before it's ready to serve.
• Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more…
• But almost any place is Baghdad if you don't know what will happen in it.

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