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There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

Comfort Relationship Substitute Supplied
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A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.

Person Publishes Book Appears
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Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
Give Good Advice Promise
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Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.

Gently Beautiful Kind Intelligent
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The heart can push the sea and land Farther away on either hand; The soul can split the sky in two, And let the face of God shine through.

Heart Push Soul Sky
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I will come back to you, I swear I will; And you will know me still. I shall be only a little taller Than when I went.

Come Swear Taller
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I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.

Being Everyone I Think Important
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I would blossom if I were a rose.
Blossom Rose
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I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.
Anything Being Holy Made
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Night falls fast. Today is in the past.

Night-fall Fast Today Past
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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Between Doing Many Out
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Cruel of heart, lay down my song. Your reading eyes have done me wrong. Not for you was the pen bitten, And the mind wrung, and the song written.

Cruel Heart Song Reading-eyes
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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

Continuous Distant Hear Other
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I do not think there is a woman in whom the roots of passion shoot deeper than in me.
Think Woman Roots Passion
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To a Young Poet Time cannot break the bird's wing from the bird. Bird and wing together Go down, one feather. No thing that ever flew, Not the lark, not you, Can die as others do.

Young Poet Bird Wing
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Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
Every Every Man Man Man Needs
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I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind...

Born Woman Distressed Needs
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Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies.

Childhood Kingdom Dies
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When I can make Of ten small words a rope to hang the world!

Small World Words Rope
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A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down.

Publishes book Appears Public Eye
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Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would note In me a beauty that was never mine, How first you knew me in a book I wrote, How first you loved me for a written line....

Friend Forget Fain Beauty
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Ah, I could lay me down in this long grass And close my eyes, and let the quiet wind Blow over me
Lay Me Long-grass Eyes
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A ghost in marble of a girl you knew Who would have loved you in a day or two.

Ghost Marble Loved Day
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She learned her hands in a fairy-tale, And her mouth on a valentine.

Learned Hands Fairy-tale Valentine
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I saw and heard, and knew at last The How and Why of all things, past, and present, and forevermore.

Saw Heard Past Present
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The undercurrent of my every thought: To seek you, find you, have you for my own.

Undercurrent Thought Seek You
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But you were something more than young and sweet And fair, - and the long year remembers you.

You Young Sweet Fair
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I would I were alive again to kiss the fingers of the rain.

Fingers Alive Rain
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But the roaring of the fire, And the warmth of fur, And the boiling of the kettle Were beautiful to her!

Roaring Fire Warmth Boiling
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Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

Certain Could Disciplined Emotions
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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

Better Doomed Future How
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Searching my heart for its true sorrow, This is the thing I find to be: That I am weary of words and people, Sick of the city, wanting the sea.

Searching Heart Sorrow Words
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Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

Conceited Digest Eating Empty
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Heart, have no pity on this house of bone: Shake it with dancing, break it down with joy.

Heart Pity House Bone
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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Base Calls Entirely Even
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Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

Brown Generic Like Moral
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I will control myself, or go inside. I will not flaw perfection with my grief. Handsome, this day: no matter who has died.

Control Myself Flaw Perfection
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Into each dance must be packed the panic and ecstasy of her last moment of life, for underneath was death.

Dance Packed Ecstasy Moment
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

Absolute Another Body Human
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The breath of dying lilies haunted the twilight air.
Breath Dying-lilies Haunted Twilight
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One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.

Anywhere Get Marriage Public
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About the trees my arms I wound; Like one going mad I hugged the ground; I raised my quivering arms on high; I laughed and laughed into the sky.

Trees Hugged Ground Quivering
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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Almost Always Becomes Demands
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Into the darkness they go, the wise & the lovely
Darkness Do Wise Lovely
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And you as well must die, beloved dust, And all your beauty stand you in no stead; This flawless, vital hand, this perfect head, This body of flame and steel, before the gust.

Die Beloved Dust Beauty
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Along my body, waking while I sleep, Sharp to the kiss, cold to the hand as snow, The scar of this encounter like a sword

Body Sleep Kiss Snow
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Not only under ground are the brains of men Eaten by maggots, Life in itself Is nothing, An empty cup,
Under Ground Brains Eaten
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I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.

About Am Hate I Am
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Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.

Afford Basically Books Britain
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Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way, I haven't re-invented the process every time but I almost have.

Almost Any Been Book
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