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Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom.

Writing Loneliness Privacy Freedom
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All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later.

Life Love Family Friends
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I'm pretty certain that if there is a will there is a way.

Certain Will Way
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There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.

Original Primary Gender Imitation
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...laughter emerges in the realization that all along the original was derived.

Laughter Realization Original Derived
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Life has to be protected. It is precarious. I would even go so far as to say that precarious life is, in a way, a Jewish value for me.

Life Protected Precarious Value
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I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic.

Think Sexual Position Comic
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I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality.

Gender Feminism Women Equality
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There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results.

Gender Identity Expressions Results
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Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are more or less legible to those who try to see one another with their own faulty vision.

Love Feeling History Vision
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To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination.

Operate Power Domination
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The greater the controversy, the more you need manners.

Greater Controversy Manners
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Freedom without rules doesn't work. And communities do not work unless they are regulated by etiquette

Freedom Rules Work Etiquette
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We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

Charming Fresh Civilized Society
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Etiquette does not render you defenseless. If it did, even I wouldn't subscribe to it. But rudeness in retaliation for rudeness just doubles the amount of rudeness in the world.

Etiquette Defenseless Rudeness World
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People read informality as, 'Do whatever you feel like,' and whatever you feel like might be disastrous.

People Informality Feel Disastrous
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If it's against state law, it's generally considered a breach of Etiquette.

Against Law Breach Etiquette
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Society cannot exist without etiquette ... It never has, and until our own century, everybody knew that.

Society Exist Etiquette Century
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Generosity and gratitude are inseparably linked.
Generosity Gratitude Linked
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When you're in love, you put up with things that, when you're out of love you cite.

Love Put up Cite
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Life is full of wonderful passions that come and go over the years, but the only one that will never let you down is reading.

Life Passions Years Reading
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Manners require showing consideration of all human beings, not just the ones to whom one is close.

Manners Consideration Human beings
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We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

Time Dreams Imagination Reality
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The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.
Treasures Invisible Heart
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

Brave Human Laws Natural
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It is better for us to see the destination we wish to reach, than the point of departure

Better Destination Wish Departure
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If at every instant we may perish, so at every instant we may be saved

Instant Perish Saved
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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.

Reality Facts Romantic Imagination
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
Chance Lost Present Last moment
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On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man

War Destroy Peace Man
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It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.

Misfortune Friends Solitude Reason
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The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the ‘Living Infinite

Existence Love Emotion Living
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.

Human Mind Conceptions Supernatural
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we see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.

Science Perfectible Theory Fresh
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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!

Impossible Obstacles Stronger Wills
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Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.

Feel Art Better Way
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In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.

Presence Nature's Man Powerless
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.

Solitude Isolation Painful Human endurance
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Death, the beginning of eternal things, is only the end of earthly cares.

Death Beginning Eternal Earthly cares
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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?

Use Arguments Destroyed Force
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What you do for money you do badly.

You Money Badly
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Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.

Creativity Faith Control
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Making art has taught me that the tiniest smidgen of progress is something to be cherished.

Art Progress Cherished
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The reward for attention is always healing.

Reward Attention Healing
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I believe that what we want to write wants to be written

Believe Want Write
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Creativity - like human life itself - begins in the dark

Creativity Human Life Dark
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The myth that we must have “time”—more time—in order to create is a myth that keeps us from using the time we do have.

Myth Time Create
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It’s not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

Answer Enlightens Question
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Agendas tend to drain the life out of relationships.

Agendas Drain Life Relationships
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All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.

Audacity Talent Artist Center stage
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