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"You cultivate the subconscious by meditation, by sitting in silence and by not trying to control your thoughts. Then go someplace where you haven't been before, or go for a walk, a run, and look for signs of grace-an epiphany, something that comes to you."
"That's how a thing starts out real then ends up just an idea."
"It makes me angry sometimes, it's a visceral thing--how you come to despise your own words in your ears not because they aren't genuine, but because they are; because you've said them so many times, your 'principles,' your 'ideals'--and so damned little in the world has changed because of them."
"She wasn't in love but she would love him, if that would save her."
"For what are the words with which to summarize a lifetime, so much crowded confused happiness terminated by such stark slow-motion pain?"
"The novel is perhaps the highest art form because it so closely resembles life: it is about human relationships. It's technique, page by page, resembles our technique of living day by day-a way of relating."
"We are the species that clamors to be lied to."
"Princeton is quite integrated. Women are professors at Princeton. Women are students at Princeton. That began in the 1970s."
"This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can't escape. Life was easier then. You just didn't pick up the phone."
"Only in love is there trust - even the possibility of trust."
"Betrayal is the deepest wound. Betrayal is what remains of love, when love has gone."
"Sometimes people surprise us. People we believe we know."
"I'm sure all that you've heard is just the usual gossip, invented to injure feelings rather than illuminate truth."
"One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in my insanity."
"To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost."
"I want to tell you that I love you I want to tell you that I love you I want to tell you that I love I love I love I love but you do not."
"In a family, what isn't spoken is what you listen for. But the noise of a family is to drown it out."
"Society is the picnic certain individuals leave early, the party they fail to enjoy, the musical comedy they find not worth the price of admission."
"I love insult, it's always honest."
"The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives."