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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.

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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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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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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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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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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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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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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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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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