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Men must be stripped of arrogance and women must become independent for any mutually nurturing alliance to endure between the sexes.
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You're not too fat; you're just in the wrong country.
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It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.
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I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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It was easy enough to kill yourself in a fit of despair. It was easy enough to play the martyr. It was harder to do nothing. To endure your life. To wait.
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Memory is the crux of our humanity. Without memory we have no identities. That is really why I am committing an autobiography.
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I don't think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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You can't be creative and still be a good girl.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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In loving life you love what can't survive.