Too late, but I understand. That we don't perish of understanding everything too late, that is a miracle. But we do perish of that -- of just that.

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The danger with hatred is, once you start in on it, you get a hundred times more than you bargained for. Once you start, you can't stop.

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You have a conscience, and a conscience is a valuable attribute, but not if it begins to make you think you were to blame for what is far beyond the scope of your responsibility.

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Like all enjoyable things, you see, it has unenjoyable parts to it.

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You be greater than your feelings. I don't demand this of you - life does. Otherwise you'll be washed away by feelings. You'll be washed out to sea and never seen again.

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Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. The illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on.

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Old age isn't a battle: old age is a massacre.

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We don�t just forget things because they don�t matter but also forget things because they matter too much because each of us remembers and forgets in a pattern whose labyrinthine windings are an identification mark no less distinctive than a fingerprintit�s.

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Dreams? If only they had been! But I don't need dreams, Doctor, that's why I hardly have them - because I have this life instead. With me it all happens in broad daylight!

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I am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions. You can travel the length and breadth of my body over superhighways of shame and inhibition and fear.

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