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I stood lonely enough, but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed: it did not oppress me much.
(I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind
I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
After a war life catches desperately at passing hints of normalcy like vines entwining a hollow twig.
Food is a gift and should be treated reverentially--romanced and ritualized and seasoned with memory.
I like the assumption that everyone is trying his best, and we should all just be kind to each other.
Without even thinking about it, my son uses technology in almost everything he does, large and small.
Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me.
Horror is always aware of its cause; terror never is. That is precisely what makes terror terrifying.
You see, life only turns out good or bad for only a little bit. And then it turns out some other way.
For the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have.
Everything you see is based on fact of a event thats already happen, Even light only travels so fast.
The girl traced the outline of her lover's shadow so she would always have a record of how he looked.
You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.
I always say to my students, if you can do anything other than writing and be happy, then you should.
To my mind, Guernica is the most important online intellectual and literary journal in America today.
How shall we praise the magnificence of the dead, The great man humbled, the haughty brought to dust?
The one you love leans forward, smiles, deceives you, Opens a door through which you see dark dreams.
One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
All guys are scared of each other, didn't you know that? I'm not the only one. We're all born afraid.
Now the only decent way to get something done is to get it done by somebody who quite likes doing it.
Whatever men you take, keep the idea of man intact: let your soul wait whether your body does or not.
I am turned into a dream. I feel nothing, or I don't know what I feel. Yet it seems to me I am happy.
Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.
That's how women are with me " said Paul. "They want me like mad but they don't want to belong to me.
I want to love and be loved.... I don't want a world without love or grief or beauty. I'd rather die.
No man can take your freedom from you. They can limit your mobility, but that's about all they can do
I think people face that in any artistic field, this idea of: oh, I could do that, if I had the time.
I'm a person who always wanted to turn my life into an archive. Social media made my dream come true.
Eventually, I gave up my sublet in Berlin and stayed in England for a long time - for about 20 years.
My books are inert as cordwood till a readers imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.
Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience.
...and once again Dexter is struck by how easy conversation can be when no-one is in their right mind
All that children need is love, a grown-up to take responsibility for them, and a soft place to land.
Women have the feeling that since they didn't make the rules, the rules have nothing to do with them.
Wakings are the worst times--almost before my eyes are open a great weight seems to roll on my heart.
Believing something doesn't change who you are. Neither does rejecting something you once believd in.
We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then we become bitter and isolated as we age.
I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible.
I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
One of the most difficult things in the world is to convince a woman that even a bargain costs money.
A loafer never works except when there is a fire; then he will carry out more furniture than anybody.
People aren't good or bad. They just do good or bad things. Your only hope is to know which is which.
January is here, with eyes that keenly glow, A frost-mailed warrior striding a shadowy steed of snow.
To your generation, I must represent the literary equivalent of tufted furniture and gas chandeliers.
There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free.
I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out.
If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do it.
In a way Winter is the real Spring - the time when the inner things happen, the resurgence of nature.
If a man wanted to put the entire universe in his breast, he couldn't do it with his chest stuck out.