A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow.
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I was not influenced by Joyce although he's a great writer, and I love his work. I was influenced by Saint Augustine.Marguerite Young
The asexual angel, neither male nor female... unable to live without her mask of illusions... showed herself to be the denuded character every person would be if confronted with the loss of their illusions as she was.
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I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night.
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A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.
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All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe.
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