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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.

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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Hope Implies Journal Keep
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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Act Currency Exist Fix Given Kind Quite Same Thing Way Word Written
If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Doing Fera Right Sign Something Usually
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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