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- The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father. And you know…
- The detachment of the artist is kind of creepy. It's kind of rude, and yet really it's where art comes from. It's not the same…
- Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself.
- You couldn't pretend you had lost nothing... you had to begin there, not let your blood freeze over. If your heart turned away at this,…
- When you find out who you are, you will no longer be innocent. That will be sad for others to see. All that knowledge will…
- But I believed in starting over. There was finally, I knew, only rupture and hurt and falling short between all persons, but, Shirley, the best…
- They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.
- What makes humans human is precisely that they do not know the future. That is why they do the fateful and amusing things they do:…
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