In the best writers, the outward-reaching interest in the 'found subject' leads back at a hairpin to some uncomfortable inner recognition that the writer has journeyed very far to see; he comes home half-dead.
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In the best writers, the outward-reaching interest in the 'found subject' leads back at a hairpin to some uncomfortable inner recognition that the writer has journeyed very far to see; he comes home half-dead.
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As separate people, we are weak, but we could be a peaceful, powerful nation.
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'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' is, to my mind, a work of perfect genius.
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It's dangerous to accept crisis as your baseline. It gets harder and harder to see the anti-crises that are so requisite to happiness: the quiet times, the crucial pauses - like those in a poem.
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Nobody writes like Nabokov; nobody ever will. What I would give to write one sentence like Vladimir!
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Parenthood is a psychic sweat lodge: enter into it only if you are ready to have your own secreted toxins running into your eyes. Few people are prepared for its power - women or men.
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I think a writer is a describer. She describes society and human nature as she sees it. She has to be both typical of that society and alone within it.
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To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who you are.