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If you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back, you can't see any of the detail.

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Joan Didion

Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.

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To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.

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we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all.

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I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again.

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The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.

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Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?

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