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There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences.
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Ghost towns and dust bowls, like motels, are western inventions.
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It is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.
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Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.
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You married me... but you didn't marry what you could make out of me.
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To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.
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The air is so crisp it gives me a brief, delusive sense of health and youth.
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There is nothing like a doorbell to precipitate the potential into the kinetic.
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A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.
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I balked at nothing, I was above nothing. Everything had something to teach me.
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Are writers reporters, prophets, crazies, entertainers, preachers, judges, what?
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Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.
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It has never been man's gift to make wildernesses. But he can make deserts, and has.
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It doesn't seem to me that life conforms to systems. Only systems conform to systems.
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A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out.
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Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.
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Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.
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The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.
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Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.
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He used to tell me, 'Do what you like to do. It'll probably turn out to be what you do best.'
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No one who has studied Western history can cling to the belief that the Nazis invented genocide.
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Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.
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The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process.
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We are creatures shaped by our experiences, we like what we know more often than we know what we like.
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Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of a life amount not to wisdom but to scar tissue and callus.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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Born:
February 18, 1909
Died:
April 13, 1993
(aged 84)
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