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- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.
- Silence
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- Nov 07, 2020
The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teach a child to play solitaire, and she'll be able to entertain herself when there's no one around. Teach her tennis, and she'll know what to do when she's on a court. But raise her to feel comfortable in nature, and the whole planet is her home.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good home must be made, not bought. In the end, it's not track lighting or a sun room that brings light into a kitchen.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people choose to live their life in a way that does not confront the more troubling aspects of their experience, that's fine, if it works for them. But it will probably make them uncomfortable if they come up against somebody like me. So they just shouldn't! They shouldn't read my work!
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was giving a speech one time, and the woman who introduced me said, 'Well, she used to be J. D. Salinger's girlfriend. I thought, 'God, is that all I've been?' I didn't want to be reduced to that.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people ask what I write about, that's what I tell them: 'The drama of human relationships.' I'm not even close to running out of material.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose mother 'worked' at anything besides raising her children.
- Opera
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020