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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.

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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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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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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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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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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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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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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Easier Joy Pain Wordless Write
People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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 exhortation.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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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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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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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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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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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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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Home is where your books are.
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