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Speech isn't for agony.
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Agony
Speech
Suffering
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The novel is rescued life.
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Agony without genius was gaucherie.
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Agony
Genius
Suffering
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Balance is compromise. Of the muscles.
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Balance
Body
Compromise
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Decades go faster toward the end of a century.
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Time
Century
Ends
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When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world.
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Helping Others
People
Zest
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It took most people a lifetime to join the human race.
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Lifetime
People
Race
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Sociology, the guilty science, functions best by alarm.
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Science
Alarms
Guilty
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The standard dreaming of a society has to be listened to.
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Dream
Standards
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How clerks love refusing. It salves them for being clerks.
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Bureaucracy
Clerks
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I don't suppose there's really any critic except posterity.
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Critics
Posterity
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Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts.
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Travel
Facts
Light
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The young show the genetic process, the old merely die of it.
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Process
Shows
Young
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perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.
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Meditation
Prayer
Spurs
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'Ms.' is a syllable which sounds like a bumble bee is breaking wind.
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Bees
Sound
Wind
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I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk.
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Men
Coffee
Speak
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This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.
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Success
Ideas
Writing
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In a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimacy exhausts.
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Family
Intimacy
Lines
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What I have written-and how I came to write it-is most powerfully what I am.
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Most Powerful
Writing
Written
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if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.
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Technology
Deaf
Ears
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First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.
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Dream
Book
Reading
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I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.
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Poetry
Nuisance
Solace
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The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.
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Mind
Shapes
Writing
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A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.
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Children
Memories
Rainbow
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But the trek that starts with the feet always rises in time to the head. There had never been any of mankind's that didn't.
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Travel
Feet
Mankind
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But memory, after a time, dispenses its own emphasis, making a feuilleton of what we once thought most ponderable, laying its wreath on what we never thought to recall.
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Emphasis
Memories
Wreaths
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Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand. A critic, by nature of the judgment seat, is born sitting.
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Art
Church
Fighting
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Diplomacy is what is practiced after-the-fact. Never be too right too soon -- as any smart Uncle will tell you. The man who guesses what will happen will be blamed for it. No one will believe he has merely guessed.
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Uncles
Men
Believe
Smart
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It has always seemed to me that if you could talk about your work in fully-formed phrases, you wouldn't write it. The writing is the statement, you see, and it seems to me that the poem or the story or the novel you write is the kind of metaphor you cast on life.
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Phrases
Stories
Writing
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