Perhaps I have written fiction because everything unambiguously expressed seems somehow crass to me; and when the subject is myself, I want to jeer and weep.
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Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.
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What interests me is why men think of women as witches. It's because they're so fascinating and exasperating, so other.
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Belief, like love, must be voluntary.
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New York, like the Soviet Union, has this universal usefulness: It makes you glad you live elsewhere.
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I love Shillington not as one loves Capri or New York, because they are special, but as one loves one's own body and consciousness, because they are synonymous with being.
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