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I pass by people, grazing them on the edges, and it bothers me. I've got to admire someone to really like them deeply - to value them as friends.

Admire Bothers Deeply Edges
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I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.

Am Experience Feel Horribly
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I don't believe that the meek will inherit the earth; The meek get ignored and trampled.
Believe Earth Get Ignored Inherit
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Freedom is not of use to those who do not know how to employ it.

Employ Freedom How Know
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Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action.
Action Constructive Ndecision Reverie
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Since my woman's world is perceived greatly through the emotions and the senses, I treat it that way in my writing - and am often overweighted with heavy descriptive passages and a kaleidoscope of similes.

Am Descriptive Emotions Greatly
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There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

Bath Cure Few Few Things
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There is an increasing market for mental hospital stuff. I am a fool if I don't relive it, recreate it.
Am Fool Hospital I Am
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A baby! I hated babies. I, who for two and a half years had been the center of a tender universe, felt the axis wrench and a polar chill immobilize my bones. I would be a bystander, a museum mammoth.

Axis Babies Baby Been
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My mother had taught shorthand and typing to support us since my father died, and secretly she hated it and hated him for dying and leaving no money because he didn't trust life insurance salesmen.

Because Died Dying Father
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My childhood landscape was not land but the end of the land - the cold, salt, running hills of the Atlantic. I sometimes think my vision of the sea is the clearest thing I own.

Atlantic Childhood Clearest Cold
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Now and then, when I grow nostalgic about my ocean childhood - the wauling of gulls and the smell of salt, somebody solicitous will bundle me into a car and drive me to the nearest briny horizon.

About Bundle Car Childhood
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Mountains terrify me - they just sit about; they are so proud.
About Just Me Mountains
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Believe in some beneficent force beyond your own limited self. God, god, god: where are you? I want you, need you: the belief in you and love and mankind.

Belief Believe Beyond Force
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Arrogant, I think I have written lines which qualify me to be The Poetess of America (as Ted will be The Poet of England and her dominions).

America Arrogant England Her
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I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed over? No, it was the poetry.
Cold Did Ghost Had
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If I tried to describe my personality, I'd start to gush about living by the ocean half my life and being brought up on 'Alice in Wonderland' and believing in magic for years and years.

About Alice Being Believing
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Didn't you know I'm going to be the greatest, most entertaining author and artist in the world? Well, don't feel badly, I didn't either!
Artist Author Badly Either
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I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives.

Adjectives Advances Being Felt
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I see in Cambridge, particularly among the women dons, a series of such grotesques! It is almost like a caricature series from Dickens to see our head table at Newnham.

Almost Among Cambridge Caricature
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It seems this is an age of clever critics who keep bewailing the fact that there are no works worthy of criticism.
Age Clever Criticism Critics
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There is something suspect, especially in America, about people who don't have ten-year plans for a career or at least a regular job.

About America Career Job
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I looked on my stomach and saw Frieda Rebecca, white as flour with the cream that covers new babies, funny little dark squiggles of hair plastered over her head, with big, dark-blue eyes.

Babies Big Covers Cream
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I am a writer... I am a genius of a writer; I have it in me. I am writing the best poems of my life; they will make my name.

Am Best Genius I Am
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I think that personal experience is very important, but certainly it shouldn't be a kind of shut-box and mirror-looking, narcissistic experience. I believe it should be relevant, and relevant to the larger things, the bigger things, such as Hiroshima and Dachau and so on.

Believe Bigger Certainly Experience
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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
His Made Mine Our
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Any Dead Living Precious
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I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

After Altered Changed Color
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I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.
Equal Faith Heaven I See
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Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?

Bloom Blooms Constantly Dark
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A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

Bad Bad One Face Good
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

Breed People Proud Sad
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

Am Company Country Cured
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A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

Chance Clock Day Half
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Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

Admire Charity Erect Giving
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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.

Against Beneath Crush Down
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Honest people don't hide their deeds.

Deeds Hide Honest Honest People
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I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.

Another Choose Guide Leading
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Terror made me cruel.

Cruel Made Me Terror
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I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.

Beyond Cannot Everybody Existence
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I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S.

Appreciate Baseball Been Born
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I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift.
Gift Gifts Give Like
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I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting.
Distracting Find I Write Listen
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I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing.

Any Background Been Biology
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There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.

Afghanistan Even Even Now Form
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I've been told, and I think I recognize it, that there's a cinematic quality to my writing, with a sense of image and place and scene - and, some would say, my tendency to finish my books the way Hollywood finishes its films.

Been Books Cinematic Films
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When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who had the means to get out. Every time I go to Afghanistan I am haunted by that.

Afghanistan Am Been Being
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Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.

Action Actions Consequences Every
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Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.
Alive Fiction Kept Literary
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Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

Books Feel I Feel Readers
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