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It is the duty of every generation of writers and artists to find fresh ways of expressing the habitual circumstances of the human condition. To serve...more

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Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that is absolutely right. Sometimes you can't. Reading...more

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The riskiness of Art, the reason why it affects us, is not the riskiness of its subject matter, it is the risk of creating a new way of seeing, a new ...more

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Love, they say, enslaves and passion is a demon and many have been lost for love. I know this is true, but I know too that without love we grope the t...more

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I never wanted to find my birth parents - if one set of parents felt like a misfortune, two sets would be self-destructive...I had no idea that you co...more

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Be with someone you don't want to be without.

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You are still the colour of my blood. You are my blood. When I look in the mirror it’s not my own face I see. Your body is twice. Once you once me. Ca...more

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What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. I want to be held. I d...more

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The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.

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Language is a finding-place not a hiding place.

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What you think is the heart might well be another organ.

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Every day in my consultancy, I meet men and women who are out of their minds. That is, they have not the slightest idea who they really are or what it...more

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But if what can exist does exist, is memory invention or is invention memory?

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Fall for me, as an apple falls, as rain falls, because you must. Use gravity to anchor your desire.

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And myself? Observe me. There is something to be gained from my surface uses, and perhaps a little more from my lower depths, but my very bottom? That...more