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The fastest way to revise a piece of work is to send it, late at night, to someone whose opinion you fear. Then rewrite it, praying you'll finish in time to send a new version by morning.
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I wrote about myself so I wouldn't become paralyzed by rumination—so I could stop thinking about what had happened and be done with it.More than that, I wrote so I could say I was truly paying attention. Experience in itself wasn't enough. The diary was my defense against waking up at the end of my life and realizing I'd missed it.
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Having a worst regret betrays your belief that one misstep caused all your undeserved misfortune.
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The affair is over, but at least things have gone somewhere, if only into oblivion. And maybe oblivion is what I wanted all along.
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The trouble with letting people see you at your worst isn't that they'll remember, it's that you'll remember.
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Some things are so horrible they need to be hidden right after they become visible. They are too horrible to be seen except very slowly, or in very small amounts. Or they are too beautiful.
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There are good fathers and bad fathers, good sons and bad sons, good husbands and bad ones, but great friends are all alike. We choose them and keep them. We aren’t bound to them by anything but love.
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My friend Isabel says, When you’re writing even a short novel, with at least a couple of subplots, and God only knows how many characters, your brain holds the volume of it beyond the ability of your consciousness.Of course.
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They are preparing to go to war, and with so little time to waste, they say what they mean.
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