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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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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Flesh Learn Lesson Merely On Pass
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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Block Emphasis Future Joy Merely Miseries Past Present Shadow
We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Being Every Excuse Judge Look Procrastinate Scare
The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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Feel How Joy Much Pain Trick
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Book Burrow Experience Into Life Passive Profound Read
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Fun Had Jealousy Think
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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Believe Element Function Our Unhappiness
A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Book Box Brimimg Incendiary Match Material Reader Strike
Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Age Ceremony Coming Divorce Generation
My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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Birth Courage Do Fact Love Mother never Quote She Want Wing Wings
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
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
There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Dead Like Loneliness Marriage
I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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Abortion Again Back Battle Birth Going Hope Keep Over Right Same Territory Win
I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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Accept Ahead Back Change Despite Fear Heart Part Pound Say Specially Turn
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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