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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Colour Neither Sex Soul
I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Life Love Survive
I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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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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