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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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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Anything Dilemma Even More One Risk
It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Deal Humor Imposible Most One Series Situation Tool
The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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Feel How Idiot Joy Much Pain Trick
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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Affair Before Marriage Night Novel One Poem Short Someone Stand Story
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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Blame Feel Forever Miserable Nemiest One Right Someone With Wonderful
Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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Bottle Breast Child Cuddling Done Father Feeding Fondling May Mother Need Nobody Paediatric Succumb
Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Excuse Full Life Live Pain
If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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Despair Every Day Given Here Hillside House Lease Loan Me Minute Remember
Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Curious Indication Most Photograph Reality
Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Equivalent Existence Perception
Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Love Loved Myself
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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Find Going Later Life Often Own Poem Predict Write
It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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City Liquid Migrate Mirror Once Soul Stone
Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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Keep Legless Men Silent Speak Walk Women
Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Doing Fera Right Sign Something Usually
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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Able Cry Ever Experience Mist Must Stand Think Use Wonder
What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Always Deceive Life Look Point Someone Spend
I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Being Cease Control Fear Fearful Let Me
The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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Camera Chronicle Create Enough Exist Existence Magical Must Transformation
Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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Betray Betrayal Betrayer
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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Freedom Gain Loss Loving Much Someone Think
Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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Far Fear Foolish Future Humankind Most
Solitude is un-American.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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Definition Elise Erotica Like Nobody Pornography Somebody

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