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The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.

More Want Reason
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In each of us there are places we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them.

Places Limits Find
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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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When success comes in the door, it seems, love often goes out the window.

Success Love Window
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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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A daydreamer is prepared for most things.

Daydreamer Prepared
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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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Betrayal is the deepest wound. Betrayal is what remains of love, when love has gone.

Betrayal Wound Love
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Death is just the last scene of the last act.

Death Scene Act
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Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read

Read Apology Someone
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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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Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.

Love Hate Powerful
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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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Dear girl! Life is addictive. Yet we must live.

Girl Life Addictive Live
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The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives.

Denial Language Suicidal Lives
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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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Society is the picnic certain individuals leave early, the party they fail to enjoy, the musical comedy they find not worth the price of admission.

Society Picnic Individuals Enjoy
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If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

Food Poetry
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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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How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Lovely World Simply Look
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The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.

Language Death Silence
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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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Tragedy is the highest form of art.

Tragedy Form Art
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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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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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You cant spend your life apologizing.

You Life Apologizing
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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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Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.

Possibility Luxury Crucial
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I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic.

Think Sexual Position Comic
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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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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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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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Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one.

People Think Technology Old
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