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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.

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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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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 exhortation.
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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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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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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