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Literature is the lie that tells the truth...
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I fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river.
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It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.
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It's important to set challenges that you're not sure you're equal to.
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Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.
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I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means.
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Stories are the one sure way I know to touch the heart and change the world.
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I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft.
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I was born trash in a land where the people all believe themselves natural aristocrats.
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And while it is true that I got the best woman in the world, I don't think love saves you.
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One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
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I do not write about nice people. I am not nice people. Neither is anyone I have ever cared deeply about.
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I have wanted everything as a writer and a woman, but most of all a world changed utterly by my revelations.
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Babies change things, open doors you thought were shut, close others. Make you into something you never been.
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Behind the story I tell is the one I don't...Behind the story you hear is the one I wish I could make you hear.
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Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time.
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People become writers out of need, to create something they haven't found yet and, a little bit, to give something back.
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That was what gospel was meant to do — make you hate and love yourself at the same time, make you ashamed and glorified.
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She got a reputation for an easy smile and a sharp tongue, and using one to balance the other, she seemed friendly but distant
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People don't do right because of the fear of God or love of him. You do right because the world doesn't make sense if you don't.
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Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand.
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The only magic we have is what we make in ourselves, the muscles we build up on the inside, the sense of belief we create from nothing.
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He never said "Don't tell your mama." He never had to say it. I did not know how to tell anyone what I felt, what scared me and shamed me.
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Mama learned to laugh with them, before they could laugh at her, and to do it so well no one could be sure what she really thought or felt.
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My life has been saved over and over again by picking up a book in which someone captured the whole experience of being despised and not dying.
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
John Betjeman
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April 11, 1949
(age 75)
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