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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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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Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.
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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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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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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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Cynicism is an unpleasant way of telling the truth.
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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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Lonely people talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
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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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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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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
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I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
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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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My father was often angry when I was most like him.
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Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
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People change and forget to tell eachother.
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