"Fiction happens in the womb. It doesn't get processed in the mind until you do the editing."
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"Dying is not easy. It's a very hard transition."
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"I'm such a control freak. I want to control even my own death. Decide when I will die and how."
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"Seated by her side in the narrow cabin, pressing cold compresses to her forehead and holding her while she vomited, he felt profoundly happy."
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"Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking."
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"Fear is like a black cavern that is terrifying. Once you enter the cavern and explore it, you realize that you can get out of it, go through it and get out of it. Then there's another cavern that is just as big and terrifying, and you just go in and dwell in it and see what is the worst that can happen."
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"You write a book and it's like putting a message in a bottle and throwing it in the ocean. You don't know if it will ever reach any shores. And there, you see, sometimes it falls in the hands of the right person."
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"Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone"
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"We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged."
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"I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences."
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"The hardest thing of love is to let go."
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"Someone has said that conversation is sex for the soul."
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"I felt an unrelenting restlessness. It was the first time I had ever experienced jealousy, and that emotion clung to my skin day and night like a dark stain, a contamination I could not shed; it became so unbearable that when finally I rid myself of it, I was freed forever of the desire to possess another person or the temptation ever to belong to anyone."
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"I'm open to love, and I think that I will fall in love with a wonderful man."
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"I love my dog unconditionally, but never the man I'm sleeping with."
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"If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour."
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"I don't want to die in pain or in an undignified way, I don't want any of the people I love to die in, die painfully. But I'm aware of the fact that they may die before I do and I have to part with them and take the loss. The hardest thing of love is to let go. But I think I can get let go of almost anybody."
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"You have the health you deserve."
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"For women in my lifetime things have changed quite a bit, but not enough. They have only changed for women that have education and access to health care in the Western world. But look at the rest of the world. Still in many places, women are sold into premature marriages, prostitution, forced labor; they are forced to have children that they cannot support or that they don't want. They are abused, tortured, exploited and even killed with impunity."
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"I've been so thoroughly incorporated into the California culture that I practice meditation and go to a therapist, even though I always set a trap: during my meditation I invent stories to keep from being bored, and in therapy I invent stories to keep from boring the psychologist."
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