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Habit is far stronger than the lessons of experience.
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete
We must for dear life make our own counter-realities.
The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.
The only peace, the only security, is in fulfillment.
Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.
I read to be taken out of myself, to become ecstatic.
The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.
I loved Gore Vidal's Burr. That book gave me courage.
I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.
Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.
I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.
I think the one thing humans are is language wizards.
The older I become, the more I think about my mother.
What a massive responsibility, being a moral creature
The slave who dances is free ... while he is dancing.
Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity.
If she is afraid of mirrors she is afraid of herself.
Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.
Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.
You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
In doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom.
Where there's life there's hope, and need of vittles.
If we all got angry together something might be done.
If you have no road map, you have to create your own.
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.
I've been alone my whole life, I can't do it anymore.
I'm very cagey about making friends, and I rarely do.
Owe money at Easter and Lent will seem short to thee.
Most of my work is done when everyone else is asleep.
I think heroes who are not flawed are not believable.
We wish with our hands, that's what we do as artists.
If she wasn't your grandmother I'd shoot her." Ranger
I shot that sucker right in the gumpy." Grandma Mazur
She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully.
Writing and thinking is not economically sustainable.
All wars are full of stories that sound like fiction.
But sometimes there’s nothing left to do but move on.
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
The German language is the organ among the languages.
Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.
Pain is very often a maimed creature without a mouth.
The world is surely wide enough to walk without fear.
In the presence of love, hearth and quest become one.
Most important thing in life is learning how to fall.
You'll never make a fortune working for the boss man.
I didn't want to be the daughter of the crazy people.