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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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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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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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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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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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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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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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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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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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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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My 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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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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