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Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'No, you lied to…
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Later I would come to believe that erotic ties were all a spell, a temporary psychosis, even a kind of violence, or…
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All the way out I listen to the car AM radio, bad lyrics of trailer park love, gin and tonic love, strobe…
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Basically, I realized I was living in that awful stage of life between twenty-six to and thirty-seven known as stupidity. It's when…
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For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one…
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There seemed nothing so true as a yellow tree.
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Better to think of writing, of what one does, as an activity, rather than an identity to keep the calling a verb…
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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.…
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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…
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Love is art, not truth. It’s like painting scenery.
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If one loves stories, then one would naturally love the story of the story. Or the story behind the story, pick your…
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To write a short story, you have to be able to stay up all night.
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Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
— Charlie Chaplin
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Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
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We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and…
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The response man has the greatest difficulty in tolerating is pity, especially when he warrants it. Hatred is a tonic, it makes…
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We need the tonic of wildness and...nature.
— Henry David Thoreau
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The riding of young horses is an excellent nerve tonic.
— Unknown Author
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Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for…
— Oliver Sacks
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It's nine o'clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There's an old man sitting next to me making love…
— Billy Joel
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My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.
— Chiang Kai-shek
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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted…
— William James
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I really need a gin and tonic.
— Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
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The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me
— June Allyson
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