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.
ERICA JONGMy advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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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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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Solitude is un-American.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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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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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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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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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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