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“No nostalgia runs deeper than that for something one has never known and now cannot obtain.”

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I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me.

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I think the story is my form.

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I was recently asked what it takes to become a writer. Three things, I answered: first, one must cultivate incompetence at almost every other…

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“To be in the middle of composing a book is almost always to feel oneself in a state of confusion, doubt and mental imprisonment....”

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I am the heterosexual Truman Capote.

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Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.

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We who are quotatious are never truly alone, but always hear the cheerful flow of remarks made by dead writers so much more intelligent…

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Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that…

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Food has it over sex for variety. Hedonistically, gustatory possibilities are much broader than copulatory ones.

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“Getting rid of most of my personal library comported nicely with my longheld fantasy of traveling light, existing with minimal encumbrances, living simply. A…

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Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.

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Many moons ago dictionaries of quotations may have been less needed than they are today. In those good/bad old days, people walked around with…

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Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.

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I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is.

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As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of…

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On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.

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You know what I was thinking about on my way home? How different my life would be if you’d made that gash a little…

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When we have the same thought again, the line of the original thought is deepened, causing what's called a memory trace. With each repetition…

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