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I felt like a thief with a bagful of stolen glances.
The world is surely wide enough to walk without fear.
In the presence of love, hearth and quest become one.
Pain is very often a maimed creature without a mouth.
I don't want to conquer you; I just want to climb you.
Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.
It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.
Everything is imprinted for ever with what it once was.
To create was a fundament, to appreciate, a supplement.
We are lucky, even the worst of us, for daylight comes.
Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells.
We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.
I've never been tempted by God but I like his trappings.
Don't regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough.
She was fragile, gentle, wide awake in a sleeping world.
How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are?
You're never alone with a book, are you? It's a dialogue.
What you eat is the most political thing you do every day
To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.
Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not.
You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved.
A homosexual is further away from a woman than a rhinoceros.
I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.
A bridge is a meeting place . . . a possibility, a metaphor.
Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.
But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that.
Meatspace still has some advantages for a carbon-based girl.
I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.
For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.
I fell into the books, and left myself there for safekeeping.
…only a poet could frame a language that could frame a world.
I would rather have regrets of excess than regrets of denial.
The pain is when the dreams change, as they do, as they must.
Journalism encourages haste ... and haste is the enemy of art.
In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance.
What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being.
To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.
I am much better at saying how I feel when I no longer feel it.
I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.
Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped.
We live in a world of buy it or leave it. Love does not signify.
History is not a suicide note -- it is a record of our survival.
Misery pulls away the brackets of life leaving you to free fall.
Birth is a shipwreck, the mewling infant shored on unknown land.
There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies
Unhappiness is selfish, grief is selfish. For whom are the tears?
Love is an experiment ... what happens next is always surprising.
How easy it is to destroy the past and how difficult to forget it.
I want to be an art-hero - I want to change the form of the novel.
I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.