Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
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The crooked little tomato branches, pulpy and pale as if made of cheap green paper, broke under the weight of so much fruit there was something frantic in such fertility, a crying-out like that of children frantic to please.John Updike
Suspect each moment, for it is a thief,tiptoeing away withmore than it brings.
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Possession diminishes perception of value, immediately.
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Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solicitude is the enemy of well-being.
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Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.
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Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.
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