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Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.

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I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

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You play. You win. You play. You lose. You play.

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Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.

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I'm not a quitter.

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Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

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Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

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If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.

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I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.

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I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older.

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I never cared about money.

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Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.

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To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.

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Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.

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I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.

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Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.

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I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.

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Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.

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We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.

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