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- Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different. Men eat themselves up believing they have to be the thing they have been…
- I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to me the only way I have forgiven…
- When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.
- Gravy is the simplest, tastiest, most memory-laden dish I know how to make: a little flour, salt and pepper, crispy bits of whatever meat anchored…
- I told her, Don't touch me that way. Don't come at me with that sour-cream smile. Come at me as if I were worth your…
- The only magic we have is what we make in ourselves, the muscles we build up on the inside, the sense of belief we create…
- I wanted her to to go on talking and understand without me saying anything. I wanted her to love me enough to leave him, to…
- My son, Wolf, was born when I was past 40 and the author of a best-selling novel. That means he has grown up a middle-class…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong