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For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full of pain, but I like that. It's a reality, and I just accept it as something not to be avoided.

Accept Always Avoided Being
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I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite.

Absolutely Absolutely Not Am Difficult
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I have a sense of destiny because of my mother, who was an extraordinary person but a terrible candidate for mother. She was like the god Cronus, who gave birth to his children in the morning and then ate them at night.

Ate Because Birth Candidate
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Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best.

Actually Almost Anybody Best
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The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.

Age Book Depends Experience
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I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

An anarchist Politics Impressionist
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There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

Happiness Having Giving
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Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.

Strength Character Work Home
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Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him.

Against Conservatives Early Government
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I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.

Always Interested People Liked them
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?

Character Determination Incident
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Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
Money Thing Follow Charming
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It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.

Matter True Counts Perceived
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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God

Blessed People Leaders Destiny
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

Judge people Excellence Distance Traveled
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

Books Furniture Beautifully furnishes
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The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.

Unthankful heart No mercies Will find
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

Library Luxury Necessities Life
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.

Young love Flame Pretty Hot
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
Greatness Being strong Use Strength
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

Can forgive Forget Another way
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Be humble but very strategic and progressive in your mind. People recognize humility.

Be humble Strategic Progressive Mind
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I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards.

Afterwards Digging Garden Holes
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I like cooking, but I think someone else ought to do the dishes.
Cooking Dishes Else I Think
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I picked a name that was a combination of an island name and a very English name. Havana was one choice and Dominico was another, but I liked the combination of Jamaica Kincaid.

Another Choice Combination English
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The English language started out as a distortion in my life, but nothing remains the same, and so the distortion is now just normal. That is one of the things that will happen to all distortions: They become normal and turn into something else.

Become Distortion Else English
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People only say I'm angry because I'm black and I'm a woman. But all sorts of people write with strong feeling, the way I do.

Angry Because Black Feeling
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I grew up in a place where books were very, very scarce, and I loved to read. I used to read the writing on my breakfast Ovaltine over and over again because it was in front of me, and I couldn't help but read anything that was in front of me.

Again Anything Because Books
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I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
Excellent Good Good Writer Very
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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Age Because Dark Fails
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America is a nation with many flaws that only the stupid would deny, but with hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.

Acknowledge America Cowardly Deny
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I missed a whole cycle of childhood, but I've never used it as a device for self-pity.

Childhood Cycle Device Missed
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If there was a turning point for me, it was 'The Bridges at Toko-Ri.' It is a very fine short novel. But it gave me very little satisfaction. Really. I decided I wasn't going to go down that avenue.

Avenue Bridges Decided Down
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Whenever I start a book, I swear it's going to be a short one. But then it's, 'Who was his grandfather? And how did he get there in the first place? And what kind of animals is he chasing?'

Animals Book Chasing Did
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Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

Anxious Bound Circumstances Improve
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A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

Cannot Coerce Command Guidance
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The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.

Brought Cannot Endure Errors
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I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know.

Everything Know Taught Them
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Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.
Confused Emotions Intellect Lie
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And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up.

Argue Both Celebrate Differ
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But the fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday.

Fact Going Most People
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Aggression and forced redistribution of wealth has nothing to do with the teachings of the world's great religions.

Aggression Forced Great Nothing
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Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long.

Economics Level Long Many
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In the world of acting, many are thin but few are talented.

Acting Few Many Talented
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The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification.

Argument Best Diversification Funds
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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Easier Go down Hill Better
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I hope I left behind a legacy that people will enjoy. But whatever they want to say, I can't predict.

Behind Enjoy Hope Left
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A few actresses have all but set up shop as women of a certain age who attract younger lovers. I think of Susan Sarandon, Cameron Diaz and Isabelle Huppert.

Actress Age Attract Cameron
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A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never

Book Good company Conversation Loquacity
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It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.
Certain Funny Genius Must
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