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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

Truth Palatable Preference
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

I Writer Talker
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A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.

Writer Education School Inspired
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My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.

Life Moments Death Birth
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My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do real things, for the real me.

Life Good Passive People
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I'm sort of getting into the idea of nourishing your inner aspect and doing that by investing in your family and making a meal and creating time together.

Idea Investing Family Time
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Invest in what's real. Clean as you go. Drink while you cook. Make it fun. It doesn't have to be complicated. It will be what it will be.

Invest Real Fun Complicated
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Beauty, to me is about being comfortable in your own skin.
Beauty Comfortable Your Own skin
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I say what I think, and I stand behind what I say.

Say Think Stand What
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I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring and it's not about the wedding. It's a grave thing, getting married. And it's easy to get swept up in the wrong things.

Friends Wedding Married Wrong
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When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.

Public People Criticizing Aspect
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It's a waste of time for people to say things they think other people want to hear, or try and come off in a certain way. I try to be as honest as I can.

Waste Time People Honest
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I'm an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don't imagine I'll abandon that completely.

Artist Creative People Imagine
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I understand what it feels like not to like aspects of yourself. There have been times that I have felt really terrible about the way I look. I have the seed of that feeling.

Understand Feels Yourself Times
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Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it's our business

Marriage Decide Business
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The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.

Best way Mend Heart Time
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Taking care of yourself is being there for your kids, like how on a plane, they tell you to put on your oxygen mask first.

Care Yourself Kids First
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I wouldn't say I'm a very original thinker, but if I have a good experience with something, I'll want to take it further or adapt it in some way.

Thinker Experience Further Adapt
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What I've learned is I want to enjoy my life, and food is a big part of it.
What Enjoy Life Food
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I eat whatever I want. I like bread and cheese and wine, and that makes my life fun and enjoyable.

Eat Want Life Fun
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The whole world thus becomes integrated as a spectacle into the domestic universe.

World Integrated Domestic Universe
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Take your desires for reality!" can be understood as the ultimate slogan of power.

Desires Reality Slogan Power
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It is useless to dream of revolution through content, useless to dream of a revelation through form, because the medium and the real are now in a single nebula whose truth is indecipherable.

Dream Revolution Form Truth
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We need a visible past, a visible continuum, a visible myth of origin to reassure us as to our ends, since ultimately we have never believed in them.

Visible Myth Origin Believed
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Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true

Nothing Enigmatic Reality True
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Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.

Artist Work Plant Horticulture
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The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

Poet Asks Admiration Believed
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you

Public Criticizes You Cultivate
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I am burning myself up and will always do so.

I Burning Myself Always
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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.

Excruciating Unbeliever Spirit Religious
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I'm not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty.

Willing Tolerated Love Liberty
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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

True Poet Scent Roses
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

Art Beautiful Fashion Time
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I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality

Mythology History Truth Reality
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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Music Something Feelings Motivated
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A man's truest self realizations might require him, above all, to learn to close his eyes: to let himself be taken unawares, to follow his dark angel, to risk his illegal instincts.

Self realizations Learn Unaware Instincts
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True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

True realism Revealing Habit Prevents
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Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.

Yourself Life Death Work
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility. It insists on living its own life.

Poetry Hope Achieve Life
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Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.

Youth Assert Conviction Nothing
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The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

Worst Tragedy Poet Admired
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He who is affected by an insult is infected by it.

He Affected Insult Infected
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Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

Emotion Work Art Value
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The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Day Birth Death Walk
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The map of our life is folded in such a way that we cannot see one main road across it, but as it is opened out, we are constantly seeing new side roads. We think we are choosing, and we have no choice.

Map Life Road Choice
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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.

We Shelter Angel Guardians
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Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.

Never Sell Killed Beast
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise; He is always ready to go.

Death Wise man Surprise Ready
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
Find Destiny Roads Avoiding
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To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear

Hell Pleasure Haunted Fear
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