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The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves the other…
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The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it…
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I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so…
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The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.
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Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed…
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Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut is not…
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The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.
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The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
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Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.
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Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death the widow…
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Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
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We are the species that clamors to be lied to.
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Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke…
— Ted Solotaroff
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One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be observed, nor…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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One writes to teach, to move or to delight.
— Unknown Author
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As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.
— Van Wyck Brooks
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No one put a gun to your head and ordered you to become a writer. One writes out of his own choice…
— Stanley Ellin
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One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time, in others' minds.
— Alfred Kazin
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One writes to find words' meanings.
— Joy Williams
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One writes out of one thing only-one's own experience,
— James A. Baldwin
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What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem -…
— Paul Muldoon
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men?…
— Jackie Collins
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When one writes, there’s the double horror of discovering not only what it is that one so fears but also the triviality…
— Deborah Eisenberg
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One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent.
— Stephen Dobyns
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