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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.

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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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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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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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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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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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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Back Forward Look Myself See
And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Anything Even More Risk Trouble
What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Alone Creativity Demand Enough Less Nothing Talent You
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Gossip Opiate Oppress
Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Famemillion Idea People Wrong You
It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Easier Joy Pain Wordless Write
How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Create Death Life One Represented Someone
To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Flesh Learn Lesson Merely On Pass
My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Curious Indication Most Photograph Reality
People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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