The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.
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Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
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The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
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The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.
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All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.
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Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.
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Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.
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The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better.
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I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.
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It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth's almost agonized livingness is most felt. This hour is so dreadful to some people that they hurry indoors and turn on the lights.
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