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The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.
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January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
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The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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