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The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves the other…
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The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it…
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I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so…
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The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.
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Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed…
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Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut is not…
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The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.
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The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
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Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.
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Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death the widow…
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Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
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We are the species that clamors to be lied to.
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If you're a song writer, it's a bit different because you are expressing your own words, feelings, perspective. As an actor, you…
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You own your own words, unless they contain information. In which case they belong to no one.
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If you have confidence in your own words, aspirations, thoughts, and actions and do your very best, you will have no need…
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It makes me angry sometimes, it's a visceral thing--how you come to despise your own words in your ears not because they…
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I've never understood why people said 'in your own words.' Who else's words would I use?
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Teachers're always using that "in your own words." I hate that. Authors knit their sentences tight. It's their job. Why make us…
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Being a real friend is something to be proud of I'm one proud friend trusted friend to I hate seeing people with…
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
— Victoria Secunda
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Anyone can relate to a quote but to put something in your own words shows how you really feel and see things.
— Austin Grade
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