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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's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where…
— Anthony Burgess
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I believe we can keep the promise of our founders, the idea that if you're willing to work hard, it doesn't matter…
— Barack Obama
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You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from.
— Werner Erhard
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Religion is a valid inquiry; whether society accepts it or rejects it, it doesn't matter. Man is a religious animal and is…
— Rajneesh
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To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness,…
— Denis Diderot
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I'm a big fan of money. I like it, I use it, I have a little. I keep it in a jar…
— Adam Sandler
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I know I can act and it doesn't matter where you come from.
— Boris Kodjoe
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There wasn't a lot of R&B cats doing songs at 120 beats per minute before 'Closer,' which I take full credit and…
— Ne-Yo
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Believe in yourself, Anything is possible no matter who you are, or where you come from. Find your path and stay on…
— Unknown Author
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Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
— Karolina Kurkova
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When you realize where you come from, you naturally become tolerant, amused, kindhearted as a grandmother, and dignified as a king. Immersed…
— Laozi
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A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
— Murray Kempton
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