"June, July, all through the warm months she hibernated like a winter animal who did not know spring had come and gone."
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"Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor."
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"I've always seen myself as a winner, even as a kid. If I hadn't, I just might have gone down the drain a couple of times. I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it 'til the end of the race."
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"I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen."
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"I don't use a typewriter, I write longhand, with a pencil. Essentially I'm a horizontal writer. I think better when I'm lying down."
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"So the days, the last days, blow about in a memory, hazy autumnal, all alike as leaves: until a day unlike any other I've lived"
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"I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn't fulfill something in me, if I don't honestly feel it's the best I can do, then I'm miserable."
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"I guess if you're that thin and that small you don't need to take up too much space or breathe that much air. You just keep on going."
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"I suppose you think I'm very brazen. Or très fou. Or something.' Not at all.' She seemed disappointed. 'Yes, you do. Everybody does. I don't mind. It's useful."
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"Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors."
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"I've been working, working, working, and you know, sometimes you look back at your work and you see that it just isn't any good."
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"Don't wanna sleep, don't wanna die, just wanna go a-travellin' through the pastures of the sky"
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"People who are having a love-sex relationship are continuously lying to each other because the very nature of the relationship demands that they do, because you have to make a love object of this person, which means that you editorialize about them. You cut out what you don't want to see, you add this if it isn't there. And so therefore you're building a lie."
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"Are there any writers on the literary scene whom I consider truly great? Yes: Truman Capote."
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"Work is the only device I know of."
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"The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His work means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning."
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"Norman Mailer thinks William Burroughs is a genius, which I think is ludicrous beyond words. I don't think William Burroughs has an ounce of talent."
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"Hulga the whole while hollering like a half-slaughtered hog. (Attention, students of literature! Alliteration - have you noticed? - is my least vice.)"
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"Mick Jagger moves like a parody between a majorette girl and Fred Astaire."
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"There is such an animal as a nonstylist, only they're not writers - they're typists."
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