Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.
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There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.
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There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other's names. Naming is a difficult and time-consuming process it concerns essences, and it means power. But on the wild nights who can call hyou home Only the one who knows your name.
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I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame.
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Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.
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Poor me. There's nothing so sweet as wallowing in it is there Wallowing is sex for depressives.
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