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There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been...
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After my husband died, I felt like one of those spiraled shells washed upon the beach . . . Poke a straw through the...
Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on...
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among...
If I had any decency, I'd be dead. Most of my friends are.Source: At age...
I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any. More about this quote
Of course they have, or I wouldn't be sitting here talking to someone like you. More about this quote
I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.Source: Referring to...
In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day-in, day-out with...
. . . gastronomical perfection can be reached in these combinations: one person dining alone, usually upon a couch or...
Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can -- and surely will at times -- fail. I think we should follow a...
A philosopher is a person who doesn't care which side his bread is buttered on; he knows he eats both sides...
Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and...
We Irish had the right word on the tip of our tongue, but the imperialist got at that. What should trip off it we trip...
Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error.Source: Middlemarch, bk. 1, ch. 10,...
You mistake me, my dear. I have a high repect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them...
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. More about this quote
I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be...
A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other...
The longest day must have its close -- the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of...
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