"I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind."
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"Angels are men of a superior kind; Angels are men in lighter habit clad."
"I've realized that I can't multitask in the writing department; I can only kind of do one thing at a time."
"There is salvation - happiness and virtue - in beauty. I would define beauty in this context as a kind of richness, complexity, mystery, diversity, otherness, and unexpectedness - something that comes from the outside."
"longing to travel while you are already traveling is, I admit, a kind of greedy madness"
"We alter and customize the thing every century, every generation, every day - both in the courts and in our own homes. And marriage accepts our modifications gracefully. Marriage adapts, evolves and (in a manner that I find miraculous and kind of inspiring) somehow keeps chugging along."
"I'm a comedian, and I definitely see the humor in a lot of things. I am also sad a lot. I cry often and easily. I think you're supposed to feel all kinds of things."
"Here, drink your liqueur," Henry said, tossing back her drink. "I carry it with me everywhere because it's the only kind of drink that Leo doesn't like, so there's a chance I'll still have some tomorrow."
"I go for all the belles, except the wedding kind."
"You know, I don't know if you know this about me or not, but I'm kind of a big deal."
"The import is not the kind of work woman does, but rather the quality of the work she furnishes."
"I'm aware that I'm kind of a paradox, and at times a bit ill-suited to my profession. But there's something that brings me back. There's something in me that feels like I have to do this, that this is what I'm meant to be doing. If I didn't feel this way, I wouldn't do it. But it's full of contradictions, for sure."
"I've been looking at that in myself lately. Often, joking for me is a way of diffusing the awkwardness of a situation, so it's kind of exhilarating to be a part of projects where there's nothing funny or lighthearted."
"I have to kind of like switch heads. Sometimes I manage it seamlessly, and other times I feel rather all over the place. I feel a bit schizophrenic, like I have a split personality."
"The only kind of writing is rewriting."
"A kind of synthesis, but with some elements that perhaps you wouldn't have expected in advance. I always like that when that happens, when something comes that is more than the sum of the parts."
"I've read that under trauma, that you have this ability to kind of disconnect from the experience."
"I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact."
"I thought, 'My God, I'm gonna make $15,000 a week for 13 weeks.' What would I do with that kind of money? You know, I had never seen anything like that before in my life."
"The addict will screw you over and lie to you and do all kinds of things."