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She would live now, not read.


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You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.



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The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.



Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind. When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.

Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind. When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.



I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.



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The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.



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In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.



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We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.



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My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.



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Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.



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Battle is a frightening thing, a terrible thing, but once you develop a taste for it…nothing else comes close.



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OMG, Kevin Nash, WTF, thought he was dead, LOL.



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If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.



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There is one sure way of telling when politicians aren't telling the truth - their lips move.



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There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction and in writing, pushing my family away. Books and authors became my family.



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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.



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