I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.

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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.

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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.

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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed

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Anger is really disappointed hope

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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.

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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.

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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.

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Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.

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