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- It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we do want,…
- Had my credentials been in order I would never have become a writer. Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind…
- Quite often you want to tell somebody your dream, your nightmare. Well, nobody wants to hear about someone else's dream, good or bad; nobody wants…
- You have to make sure you have the characters you want. That's really the most complicated part.
- What I want to tell you today is not to move into that world where you're alone with yourself and your mantra and your fitness…
- I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what…
- Memories are what you no longer want to remember.
- When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is…
- prepare a little hot tea or broth and it should be brought to them . . . without their being asked if they would care…
- Above all, she is the girl who 'feels' things, who has hung on to the freshness and pain of adolescence, the girl ever wounded, ever…
- As it happened, I didn't grow up to be the kind of woman who is the heroine in a Western, and although the men I…
- We imagined we knew everything the other thought, even when we did not necessarily want to know it, but in fact, I have come to…
- In fact I no longer value this kind of memento. I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what…
- You have your wonderful memories," people said later, as if memories were solace. Memories are not. Memories are by definition of times past, things gone.…
- The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal…
- I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what got wasted.
- The arrangement of the words matters, and the arrangement you want can be found in the picture in your mind. The picture dictates the arrangement.…
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