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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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Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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I have to always remember, writing is really hard.
— David Remnick
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I remember writing a paper on human evolution in 1944, and I simply left Piltdown out. You could make sense of human…
— Sherwood Washburn
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People shout out for songs and I don't even remember writing them.
— Bobby Womack
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There's one novel, Cujo, that I barely remember writing at all.
— Stephen King
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I don't remember writing anything until I wrote my college application.
— Tony Gilroy
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To be a writer was always my greatest aim. I remember writing a play about Guy Fawkes when I was 10. I…
— Peter Ackroyd
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I would like permission to fetch a note from my mother, sir' Ridcully sighed. 'Rincewind, you once informed me, to my everlasting…
— Terry Pratchett
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Do you remember writing in your diary," he said, "that it did not matter whether I was a friend or an enemy,…
— George Orwell
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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.
— Cesare Pavese
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I remember writing these terrible poems when I was, like, nine and discovered alliteration.
— Karen Russell
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