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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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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Besides Depend Intimacy Rare Really Sex Thing
Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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Also Being Ever Fool Found No One Wisdom
Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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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
Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Curious Indication Most Photograph Reality
Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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Believe Death Men never Own People Possibility Reason Send War Young
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
A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Gossip Opiate Oppress
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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Advice Already Answer Ask Know Wish
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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Always Anything Before Beginner Naked never Start Writing
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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Age Believe Close Consciousness Enjoy Every Fictional Identity Own People Read Time Transcend Whether
There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Backward Courtship End Like Marriage Rhythm
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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Beacon One Piece Sex Travel Vowed
I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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Alternate Country Create Hard Hate Myself One People Person Place Prizefighter Try Writer

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