Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
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A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.Joan Didion
There is in Hollywood, as in all cultures in which gambling is the central activity, a lowered sexual energy, an inability to devote more than token attention to the preoccupations of the society outside. The action is everything, more consuming than sex, more immediate than politics more important always than the acquisition of money, which is never, for the gambler, the true point of the exercise.
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To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
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It's always something minor. Some bit of information. Some interesting development. I think it hits people forever.
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It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the peo
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The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
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In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation.
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