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There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.

Rule Think Life Second
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As I walked by myself And talked to myself, Myself said unto me, Look to thyself, Take care of thyself, For nobody cares for thee.

Walked Myself Thyself Care
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As we leave the tribal culture of childhood behind, we lose contact with instinctive joy in self-expression: with the creative imagination, spontaneous emotion, and the ability to see the world as full of wonders.

Childhood Joy World Wonders
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Sticks and stones may break my bones; But names will never hurt me When I die, then you'll cry for the names you called me.

Sticks Stones Names Cry
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We say something every morning when we decide how to dress.

We Say Morning Decide
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In a sense much great literature is subversive, since its very existence implies that what matters is art, imagination, and truth. In what we call the real world, on the other hand, what usually counts is money, power, and public success.

Sense Art Imagination Truth
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We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.

Lie Langauge Dress Truth
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Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world

Fashion Speech Privileges Pleasures
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...you can't write well with only the nice parts of your character, and only about nice things. And I don't want even to try anymore. I want to use everything, including hate and envy and lust and fear.

Write Character Hate Fear
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Other wars end eventually in victory, defeat or exhaustion, but the war between men and women goes on forever.

Wars Victory Defeat Men
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With a pencil and paper, I could revise the world.

Pencil Paper Revise World
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If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know to be lies.

Survive Life Artist Report
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There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.

Odor Explosives Smoke War
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give values to survival.

Friendship Philosophy Value Survival
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Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger, but faces it head on

Genuine Forgiveness Anger
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If it's painful for you to criticize your friends, you're safe in doing it; if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

Painful Criticize Friends Pleasure
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People who deal in truth themselves recognize it when they hear it, just as people who deal in diamonds recognize a real stone when they see it.

People Truth Recognize See
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It's hard upon occasions to be forceful and sublime When you're treated as incompetents three-quarters of the time.

Hard Occasions Forceful Sublime
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Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us.

Listening Talking Powers Human
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Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist.

Love Linger Longest Hold
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It is always difficult for a woman to be grateful for a form of chivalry that seems to be based on the premise that she is a moron.

Difficult Woman Grateful Premise
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Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion.

Rare Nature Intense Discussion
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I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.

Paint Beautiful Pictures Important
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Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind... When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.

Remember Man Room Leaves
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In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.

Life Places Happened
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Few people, very few, have a treasure, and if you do you must hang onto it. You must not let yourself be waylaid, and have it taken from you.

Few People Treasure Hang
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He never wanted to be away from her. She had the spark of life.

He Wanted Away Her
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Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.

Love World You Well
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Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.

Life Grand For People
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We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do--we do it all the time.

We Some Forgiven Never Ourselves
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I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.

Lifetime spent Hiding one's Erotic truth Cumulative
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Every year, when you're a child, you become a different person.

Every Year Child Become
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If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.

Unconventionality My desires Mind Never
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I sit watching the brown oceanic waves of dry country rising into the foothills and I weep monotonously, seasickly. Life is not like the dim ironic stories I like to read, it is like a daytime serial on television. The banality will make you weep as much as anything else.

I Watching Sit Weep
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And now such a warm commotion, such busy love.

And Warm Commotion Busy
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It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!

Very capacity Self consciousness Self destructive
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The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew.

More gratification We found Own geniuses Isolated
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What would happen if we spoke the truth?

What Happen We spoke The truth
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Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.

Resented Being perceived As weak A girl
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Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.

Sometimes I wish Writing Drawing
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When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.

Growing up Starting More books Geared towards
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I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself.

Just have Entrepreneurial spirit Work Really hard
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Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?

Give up Reality Dreams Relative knowledge
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What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.

What sense Superiority Escape reading Some book
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I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

I wonder An education A fool
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You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.

Must remember Woman By nature Feed upon
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Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

Physical pain Great ends Fails away The mind
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I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.

A rule Believe compliment Implicitly Five minute
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Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.

I have Productive worth Certain value Indestructible quantity
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The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep.

The moon Always jealous Heat The day
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