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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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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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I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.

Any Anyone Books Ever
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Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

Few Genius Offended People
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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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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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Of course I've already taken a very modest position on the monetary system, I do take the position that we should just end the Fed.

Course End Fed Just
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Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

Every man Succeeded Effort Divinity
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I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

Tell you Truth Trinity Accept
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No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

Man Politics Honestly
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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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I wonder why it is we are not all kinder to each other ... How much the world needs it! How easily it is done!

Wonder Kinder World Needs
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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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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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The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

Superiority Man's opinion Never
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

Mind anything Anyone else Judge
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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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Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
Money Thing Follow Charming
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.

Right time Lucky Have
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It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.

History's ironies Classless society
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Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning,” Bismarck had cautioned.

Statesman Arguments Convincing End
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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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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

Perseverance Obstinacy Comes from Strong will
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Hold yourself to a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Hold yourself Higher standard Never
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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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Think big, don’t let anyone discourage you from pursuing your dream no matter how far off it may seem.

Think big Discourage Dream No matter
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No one pours water in a glass that’s already full. Do you need to receive something this season? If yes, then present yourself before God empty!

No one Water Glass Season
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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 like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.

Abandoned Alone Just Like
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One doesn't have to pursue unhappiness. It comes to you. You come into the world screaming. You cry when you're born because your lungs expand. You breathe. I think that's really kind of significant. You come into the world crying, and it's a sign that you're alive.

Alive Because Born Breathe
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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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I grew up in this poor place, with very limited circumstances, at about 16 years of age was sent by my family to work, and instead of remaining in the position into which I was sent, I somehow worked my way out of it without any help from anyone, just luck.

About Age Any Anyone
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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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I have no credentials. I have no money. I literally come from a poor place. I was a servant. I dropped out of college. The next thing you know I'm writing for the 'New Yorker,' I have this sort of life, and it must seem annoying to people.

Annoying College Come Credentials
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I come from a little island with the Caribbean Sea on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. I come from, really, nowhere, and for me, the fiction and the nonfiction, creative or otherwise, all come from the same place.

Atlantic Atlantic Ocean Caribbean Come
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At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored me. So I associate reading with enormous pleasure.

Adored Associate Enormous Everyone
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One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.

Does Essentially Loneliness Lonely
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I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself.

About Army Done Her
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There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones.
Only Problems Time-Consuming Ones
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Whatever I did, there was always someone around who was better qualified. They just didn't bother to do it.

Always Around Better Bother
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My work as a naval officer in World War II enabled me to serve on 49 different South Pacific islands so that I came to know the area about as well as anyone.

About Anyone Area Came
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Hawaii and Fiji are two of the best island groups in the world to visit as a vacationer. The great hotels, the fascinating local people, the exciting history of the two contrasting island groups, and the unmatched scenery make these two of the most enticing stopovers.

Best Contrasting Exciting Fascinating
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Honest to God, I do all the research on these books myself.
Books God Honest Myself
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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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I have only one bit of advice to the beginning writer: Be sure your novel is read by Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Advice Beginning Bit Hammerstein
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Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

Become Day Dream Dreams
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To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

Attainment Begin Enter Failure
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A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.

Adjustment Being Conditioned Happiness
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Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.
Expression Harmony Law Love
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