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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Back Forward Look Myself See
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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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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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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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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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Along Come Hit Keep Mine Person Right Say Truck
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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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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Bad Creative Equated Human Juice Long Side Will Women
Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Courage Have Magic Only Worth
Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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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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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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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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Catch Every Myself Say Time Try Yes

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