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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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Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.
— Sun Tzu
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My first word for the New Year was 'exsanguinate.' This was probably not a good omen.
— Charlaine Harris
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Well: the day is a poem but too much Like one of Jeffers's, crusted with blood and barbaric omens Painful to excess,…
— Robinson Jeffers
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Omens are a language, it's the alphabet we develop to speak to the world's soul, or the universe's, or God's, whatever name…
— Paulo Coelho
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It seemed incredible that this day, a day without warnings or omens, might be that of my implacable death.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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But, for a little while, this is the place for us -- a good place too--a place of good omen, a place…
— Beryl Markham
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I remember once going to see him [Ramanujan] when he was lying ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi-cab No. 1729,…
— G. H. Hardy
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The Exorcist doesn't get me, but The Omen does.
— Ethan Embry
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There is something in omens.
— Ovid
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I suspect that we are all recipients of cosmic love notes. Messages, omens, voices, cries, revelations, and appeals are homogenized into each…
— Sam Keen
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When struck by a thunderbolt it is unnecessary to consult the Book of Dates as to the precise meaning of the omen.
— Ernest Bramah
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Maybe nothing's so unfunny as an omen read wrong.
— Michael Herr
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