People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.
People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.
If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us.
If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.
Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better.
I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art.
Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't.
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