I think it's one of the reasons I wrote my book later in life. My parents didn't have … - Francine du Plessix Gray

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I thank God every day. That's all I can do. That, and try to help all those other guys who are trying to do what I did.

Francine du Plessix Gray

I think it's one of the reasons I wrote my book later in life. My parents didn't have these extreme alternations of conduct. They were very sweet to me.

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I venture that those of us who are most serene when faced with the possibility of nothingness are the ones who've reached furthest to the downward and upward of their beings.

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The choice between starving and being eaten is an exotic one.

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Friendship is by its very nature freer of deceit than any other relationship we can know because it is the bond least affected by striving for power, physical pleasure, or material profit, most liberated from any oath of duty or of constancy. With Eros the body stands naked, in friendship our spirit is denuded.

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We write out of revenge against reality, to dream and enter the lives of others.

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One learns much more by writing fiction, because the insights come from those deeper subconscious levels where the greater and more interesting truths lie.

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I thank God every day. That's all I can do. That, and try to help all those other guys who are trying to do what I did.

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I was given two weeks to walk again, so I hooked up with a trainer, and he. . . had me walking. I'll never forget that, it was grueling.

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Schoolchildren and older people like the idea of planting trees. For children, it's interesting that an acorn will grow into an oak, and for older people it's a legacy. And the act of planting a tree is not that difficult.

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