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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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We are all animals of this planet. We are all creatures. And nonhuman animals experience pain sensations just like we do. They…
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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short…
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The nights were long, like the braids of a pretty girl, and the days were short, like a girl's sense. ("The North")
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It was not a big smile, not particularly bold or polite or ironic or glib, not asking for anything or offering anything,…
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Life is short like May weather.
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Ha ha ha, I like to joke, got a sense of humor? Still face, play me short like an oompa loompa. You…
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Your Reign on the top was short like leprechauns
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If you do television, and it's great, it's the best job there is. Every week it's another opportunity to really make that…
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Walking with Grandma I like walking with grandma, Her steps are short like mine, she doesn't say now hurry up, She always…
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Nobody on this universe can change your beliefs and how you feel.God made so many things to live and none of them…
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