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Some men are self-made, but most are the revised work of a wife and children.

Men Self-made Wife Children
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I don't believe in luck. We make our own good fortune.

Believe Luck Good fortune
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Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or success.

Attitude Happier Money Success
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The best revenge is living well without you.

Best Revenge Living well
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Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.

Loneliness Starvation Hungry Eat
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Language is the instrument in all cases and can language be trusted? If it were not for language, could we lie?

Language Insrument Trusted Lie
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Only in love is there trust - even the possibility of trust.

Love Trust Possibility
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Betrayal is the deepest wound. Betrayal is what remains of love, when love has gone.

Betrayal Wound Love
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I never change, I simply become more myself.

Change Simply Myself
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Keep a light, hopeful heart. But expect the worst.
Light Hopeful heart Expect Worst
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We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

Linked Blood Memory Language
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The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt.

Ideal art Noblest Life Doubt
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Beauty is a question of optics. All sight is illusion

Beauty Question Sight Illusion
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Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.

Reading Involuntarily Voice Soul
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Maybe, love is always forgiveness, to a degree.

Love Forgiveness Degree
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Strange: how when a light is extinguished, it's immediately as if it has never been. Darkness fills in again, complete.

Strange Light Darkness Complete
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Hating "The Great Gatsby" (the novel) is like spitting into the Grand Canyon. It will not be going away anytime soon, but you will be.

Hating Spitting You
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Not what the mind sees, but what the mind imagines the eye must see.

Mind Imagines Eye See
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How crucial for us to rehearse the future, in words. Never to doubt that you will live to utter them. Never to doubt that you will tell your story.

Future Words Live Story
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In love there are two things - bodies and words.

Love Bodies Words
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Writing is a consequence of having been 'haunted' by material. Why this is, no one knows.

Writing Consequence Hunted Material
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I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can end

Time Fixed Forgotten Misery
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Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day.

Writing Activity Bribe Suicide
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For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power.

Advantage Writer Invisible Power
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There is nothing "ordinary" about reality.

Nothing Ordinary Reality
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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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Art is about freedom of expression, and should not be molded to fit any propaganda or lofty ideal.

Art Freedom Expression Ideal
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A job is not just a job. It’s who you are.

Job Who You
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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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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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Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.

Possibility Luxury Crucial
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Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

Masculine Feminine Roles Socially
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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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When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed.

Society Ideals People Behavior
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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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Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.

Enforce Morality Immorality Discreet
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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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Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.

Hypocrisy Social Sin Virtue
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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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When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable.

Virtues Flaws Insurmountable
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Generosity and gratitude are inseparably linked.
Generosity Gratitude Linked
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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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The way one was brought up isn't an excuse for rude behavior.
Way Excuse Rude Behavior
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Everybody's an art critic.

Everybody's Art Critic
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