Nancy Mairs - Voice lessons (1994)

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Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions.

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My writing arises out of erotic impulse toward an other: it is an act of love. And I want terribly to be loved in return, as a sign that I have loved well enough.

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Writing is not, alas, like riding a bicycle: it does not get easier with practice.

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From the moment of birth, at every level, human beings who are more alike than different become polarized into two absolutely exclusive classes with very different and ill-distributed symbolic powers.

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That's the trouble with honorable mentions: they let everyone know you applied and didn't win.

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If the very thought of taking off all your clothes in the middle of the Washington Mall during a school holiday makes you blush, you haven't even begun to dream what it feels like to publish a book.

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