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It was my own special brand of insanity that made me think the trials of Lucy's life could somehow be eased by the order of Tupperware.
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No, you don't look at the cigarette, you look at me. When you light a cigarette you have to look the person in the eyes.
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A daughter was a battle between fathers and boys in which the fathers fought valiantly and always lost.
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You have to remember that they could go at any time, and if a man's smart he never forgets that.
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As if the world had become a giant train station in which everything was delayed until further notice.
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I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.
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The sleep he went back to was never the one he left.
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I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.
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Sometimes not having any idea where we're going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.
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Gen was sleeping the sleep of the heavily drugged.
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I have always believed that the desire for revenge is one of life's great motivators, and my success would be my revenge
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my mother knew that no woman thought she was beautiful, or beautiful enough, or beautiful in the right way.
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The world is full of things we're better off not knowing.
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Have never subscribed to the notion of "writing what you know," at least not for myself. I don't know enough interesting things.
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Your guilt's got nothing on my guilt," Franny said. "Your guilt isn't even in the ballpark.
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you also have to find him or her at a time in life when you're able to listen to, trust, and implement the lessons you receive. The
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had I listened to no one, or only to the people who liked me, the workshop would have been a waste of time.
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Gen, with his genius for languages, was often at a loss for what to say when left with only his own words.
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You can't always trust what you think, what you know ... but you can always trust your nature.
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sense trying to make him feel bad about it. She tilted back her glass and went past the gin for a second time. She
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Everyone knows everything eventually.
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Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.
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I think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again.
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Instead, he was astonished by what he had: the chance to sit beside this woman in the late afternoon light while she read.
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Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.
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Time applied equaled work completed. I
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Maybe the private life wasn't forever. Maybe everyone got it for a little while and then spent the rest of their lives remembering.
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Did you ever want to be a writer?" "No," she said, and she would have told him. "I only wanted to be a reader.
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Because of her singing they all went away feeling moved, feeling comforted, feeling, perhaps, the slightest tremors of faith.
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Further than five minutes ahead. But since I knew at the end of the week I couldn't go back, I called a lawyer.
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Far outside the city the tree frogs were calling her, and the deep, rhythmic pulse of their voices set the blood flow to her heart.
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Even though I didn't know I was applying for the job, I have somehow become the spokesperson for independent book stores.
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That's why you can eat cheesecake,' she said, and sighed. 'Because you don't. That's the way it works.
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Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.
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No one should go into debt to study creative writing. It's simply not worth it. This is not medical school.
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It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.
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But it is never about who has given what. That is not the way of gifts. This is not a business we are conducting.
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Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.
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An essential element of being a writer is learning whom to listen to and whom to ignore where your work is concerned. Every
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Running, the music flew into him, became the wind that pushed back his hair and the slap of his own feet on the pavement.
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You don't see many shy terrorists.
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and washing it off in the sink. "Finish up your lunch." "We're starting now?" "Good a
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The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.
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I will write my way into another life.
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Maybe there would be a bad outcome for some of the others, but no one was going to shoot a soprano.
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stopped by this. Even she, who knew next to nothing
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Learn to write by writing
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She's growing up, Sister Evangeline said.And I wanted to tell her no, I'm not. Everything is exactly the same. — Ann Patchett
Maybe once he wished I was his daughter, because it was plain that my news was hard for him to hear.
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I believe, in my better moments, that there is a plan and things go not the way we want them to but the way they should.
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His heart woke him up to remind him that in life there was never a limitless number of nights. The
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Half the things in this life I wish I could remember and the other half I wish I could forget.
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Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame
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The thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August.
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Every drop of rain hit the ground with such force it bounced back up again, giving the earth the appearance of something boiling.
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Zen- Dojo Tozan was not in Sarnen or Thu but somewhere between the two, not in a village but in the tall grass and blue flowers.
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I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.
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The light was cut to lace by the trees that had grown so thick with leaves in the last few months.
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If you grow corn or trade in pigs or write poetry then you go to Iowa City." "That's why I haven't been.
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Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?
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Teresa kept sitting
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