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People have always made assumptions about me. I become very territorial about my identity because it's been hijacked by so many people with their own projections.

About Always Assumptions Because
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My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible.

Alive Am Believe Claim
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No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.

Angry Foreign Foreign Language Gets
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The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown.

Any Breakdown Case Edge
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The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.

Does Dominant Even First
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Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides.

Decide Gaze Like Look
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Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?

Easier Even Expected Inaccessible
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I think in many ways the problem that my writing would have with an American reviewer is that Americans find difficulty very hard to take. They are inevitably looking for a happy ending.

American American Difficulty Ending
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Time is the element that controls the consciousness, the very being of the people.
Being Consciousness Controls Element
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Everyone who knew me as a child, they say they're not surprised that I became a writer because I wrote all the time. I don't remember writing, because I wouldn't have had the tools, but I think what they are saying is that I would pretend I was a writer.

Became Because Child Everyone
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I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like me!

Because Grew How Like
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It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small village in New England, but my children are not named Heracles and Persephone, and my daughter doesn't disappear underground every six months and emerge in the spring.

Am Children Composer Daughter
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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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What distinguished my life from my brother's is that my mother didn't like me. When I became a woman, I seemed to repel her.

Became Brother Distinguished Her
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When I'm writing, I think about the garden, and when I'm in the garden I think about writing. I do a lot of writing by putting something in the ground.

About Garden Ground I Think
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Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.
Be Expects Fool Happy
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We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we had not wholly lost our belief that it is delightful to meet artists who have given us pleasure.

Artists Belief Delightful Given
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Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.

Art Ashamed Author Belief
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I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.
Get Ideas Me
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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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May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.
Down Feel Help Hoping
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Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

Few Genius Offended People
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Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

Authors Because Cats Creatures
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A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.

Mere Opera World
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Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

Because Become Circumstances Extraordinary
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There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.
Communal Defend Doctrine Every
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Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.

Achievements Been Before Century
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I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.

Absolutely Am American AmericanWay
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In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself.

Become Clear Everyone Greater
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Believe me, the next step is a currency crisis because there will be a rejection of the dollar, the rejection of the dollar is a big, big event, and then your personal liberties are going to be severely threatened.

Because Believe Big BigEvent
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1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.
Amendment Gave Good Income
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Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

Thank God Cheerful Happy stock
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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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Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

Young men Passion Elders
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Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

Science Existence Mankind Power
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You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Life Moments Truly Have done
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You will find, if you think for a moment, that the people who influence you are the people who believe in you.

You People Influence Believe
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You will find as you look upon your life that the moments that you truly live are the moments you have done things in the spirit of love

Your life Moments Truly live
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Any experiment that can benefit by one hairsbreadth any single human life is a thousand times worth trying.

Any experiment Hairsbreadth Human life
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No man can become a saint in his sleep.

No man Saint Sleep
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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Life Isolate Among men Trouble
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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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To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.

Christ like World Worth caring Thing
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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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To me, to be a conservative means to conserve the good parts of America and to conserve our Constitution.

America Conservative Conserve Constitution
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As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world, and that we should not be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country.

Back Building Country Elections
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Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.

Aggressive American AmericanTradition Another
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You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.

American Because Freedom Individual
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There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.

Come Creator Freedom Government
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One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.

Enumerate High civilization Countries
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