Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the.'
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Nobody knows what you want except you. And nobody will be as sorry as you if you don't get it. Wanting some other way to live is proof enough of deserving it. Having it is hard work, but not having it is sheer hell.
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Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.
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Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in nineteenth-century France and England, or twentieth-century Russia and America.
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We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.
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It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
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You lose your manners when you're poor.
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Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
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It it not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.
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Cynicism is an unpleasant way of telling the truth.
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Lonely people talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
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If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
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Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
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My father was often angry when I was most like him.
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They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
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Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
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People change and forget to tell eachother.
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Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
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