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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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It takes knowledge to know something. It takes guts to do what you know.
— Pete Wentz
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Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.
— Seth Godin
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Thoughts are things. Negativity is what kills you... It's tough to do, but you've got to work at living, you know? Most…
— Jack LaLanne
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Why do the easy expected thing? It takes guts to follow your dreams. Courage. Many people, even those who love you, don't…
— Marshall Ulrich
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To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.
— Queen Rania of Jordan
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We cannot truly plan, because we do not understand the future-but this is not necessarily a bad news. We could plan while…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.
— Robert H. Schuller
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Staring down hard truth takes guts.
— Joan Bauer
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It's so easy to laugh It's so easy to hate It takes guts to be gentle and kind
— Steven Morrissey
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Total commitment," I said. "You know, the idea of discovering something that, for all intents and purposes, goes against your abilities, and…
— Sarah Dessen
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Being young is easy, you know, but it takes guts to be old.
— Blaize Clement
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Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday…
— Pema Chodron
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