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There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.
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I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life…
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Dreaming is another form of thinking, more concrete, more economical, more visual, and often more emotional than the thoughts of the day,…
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Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words,…
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The recollections of an older man are different from those of a younger man. What seemed vital at forty may lose its…
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Widowers marry again because it makes their lives easier. Widows often don't, because it makes their lives harder. [p. 61]
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Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on.
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Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can…
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We chart delusions through collective agreement.
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The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and…
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The logic: Reading is a private pursuit, one that often takes place behind closed doors. A young lady might retreat with a…
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Correlation is not cause, it is just a 'music of chance'.
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We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print.
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Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.
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Thus we build on the ice, thus we write on the waves of the sea; the waves roaring pass away, the ice…
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We write our own destiny ...we become what we do.
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We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of…
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We cannot write well or truly but what we write with gusto.
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We don't write what we know. We write what we wonder about.
— Richard Peck
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We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
— Cecil Day-Lewis
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I like myself better when I'm writing regularly. ... I was influenced a lot by those around me-there was a lot of…
— Willie Nelson
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I like any and all of my associations with music -writing, playing, and listening. We write and play from our perspective, and…
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The decisions that we write off as momentary, insignificant, incidental, everyday encounters are exactly when we have a chance to define ourselves.…
— Teri Hatcher
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I've never known a writer who didn't feel ill at ease in the world. We all feel unhoused in some sense. That's…
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