Anna Kavan Quotes
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In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this.
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I grew up writing thank-you notes. Real, honest-to-goodness, pen-and-ink, stamped and posted letters. More than simple habit, it's about what the commitment to expressing your thoughts and feelings in writing says about the character of the writer. About the joy such notes bring to the reader.
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Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture.
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My Pleasure is my business
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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The claim of the Zen followers that they are transmitting the essence of Buddhism is based on their belief that Zen takes hold of the enlivening spirit of the Buddha, stripped of all its historical and doctrinal garments.
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Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed.
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Some weird blue sh*t that someone gave me during our 1992 Australian tour. I didn't eat it.
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It was a hobbit hole, and that means comfort.
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I always feel that my whole life is representing the LGBT community. It's kind of what I do all the time.
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It's best to love your family as you would a Siberian tiger-from a distance, preferably separated by bars.
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If someone gives you a piece of advice that sounds right and feels right, use it. If someone gives you a piece of advice that sounds right and feels wrong, don’t waste so much as a single second on it. It may be fine for someone else, but not for you.
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That was the beauty of 'Twin Peaks.' The young people had just as deep of storylines as the older generation in town.
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'The prison' begins well before its doors. It begins as soon as you leave your house - and even before.
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The more specific you are, the more universal you are.
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Charity knew there was nothing more coarse and common than an afternoon in bed with a total stranger -- but the lad installing the telephone had a grin that made her heart turn flips.
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I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons.
