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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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There is no reaching the Self. If Self were to be reached, it would mean that the Self is not here and…
— Ramana Maharshi
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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…
— Zadie Smith
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Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights.
— Bjorn Ulvaeus
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In a true partnership, the kind worth striving for, the kind worth insisting on, and even, frankly, worth divorcing over, both people…
— Amy Bloom
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Part of the beauty and much of the moral seriousness of sport derives from the severe justice of strenuous play in a…
— George Will
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When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness - and that's…
— Suze Orman
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Men passionately desire to live after death, but they often pass away without noticing the fact that the memory of a really…
— Peter Kropotkin
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prayer, and only prayer, restores my vision to one that more resembles God's. i awake from blindness to see that wealth lurks…
— Philip Yancey
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Perfection is worth striving for, even if it is ultimately unattainable in this life.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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Consider what youre saying to yourself and your life when you identify something worth striving for and then do nothing.
— Senoraroy
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