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The impulse for much writing is homesickness. You are trying to get back home, and in your writing you are invoking that…
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Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise…
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In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.
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To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a…
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Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it my way,…
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My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you discover what's…
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People tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing…
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It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what…
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Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves…
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Throw yourself into the convulsions of the world. I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't believe progress…
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New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and…
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To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.
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Had my credentials been in order I would never have become a writer. Had I been blessed with even limited access to…
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What? What am I 'bound to be feeling?' People don’t think anymore. They feel. 'How are you feeling? No, I don’t feel…
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I always get ‘What’s wrong?’ or ‘Lighten up.’ Half the time, when guys tell me to smile, I’m not even frowning, I’m…
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I’m thinking of a God very different from the God of the Christian and far and away from the God of Islam,…
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I guess maybe my art can be said to be a protest. I see things a certain way, and as an artist…
— Nancy Spero
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…and I’m thinking how nothing is as simple as you guess-not right or wrong, not Judd Travers, not even me or this…
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Man, Wren. I’m impressed. No woman ever sent flowers to thank me. (Serre) Don’t be that impressed. I’m thinking she didn’t send…
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A little bloodthirsty, isn’t it? (Kim) Given what they did to Tory, I’m thinking a quick death is merciful. Not to mention…
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If I’m not back in a few hours…well, I don’t want to think about that. I might change my mind about doing…
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Good question. (Acheron) I have a better one. How are we going to clean up this mess? (Kyrian) Nah, mine’s even better.…
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Yeah, I’m thinking it’s a reunion or, since it is our classmates, a collection of idiots. Let’s call it a meese. Like…
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What now? (Shahara) I’m thinking. (Syn) Could you think a little quicker? (Shahara) You’re not helping. (Syn) You’re lucky you’re still breathing…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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