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It was not clear how it would end. In nineteenth century novels, they get married. In twentieth century novels, they get divorced. Can you have an ending in which they do neither?  (Was Quotes) They were good listeners, worldly yet easily shocked, hungry for details, curious and nonjudgmental at the same time, always happy to give advice, but only if it was requested  (Was Quotes) I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?  (Was Quotes) She wasn't a tragic widow, after all, just another woman betrayed by a selfish man. It was a smaller, more familiar role, and a lot easier to play  (Was Quotes) There was too much going on here - too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird  (Was Quotes) When I was a ten year old book worm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love  (Was Quotes) It was easy enough to kill yourself in a fit of despair. It was easy enough to play the martyr. It was harder to do nothing. To endure your life. To wait  (Was Quotes) I heard one presidential candidate say that what this country needed was a president for the nineties. I was set to run again. I thought he said a president in his nineties  (Was Quotes) If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young  (Was Quotes) There was nothing wrong with being a homebody. There was nothing wrong with not wanting - not needing - the constant jostle and noise of a party or bar or... whatever  (Was Quotes) Even, she thought, even without the gift of witchsight, there was more beauty to be found in the world than could ever be snared in language or music. And with the sight  (Was Quotes) I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault  (Was Quotes) I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work  (Was Quotes) She hoped he was running to his red deer woman, and that when he tapped on the door of her heart, she'd open it wide and let him in  (Was Quotes) Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything  (Was Quotes) The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C. S. Lewis  (Was Quotes) It was the forest's fault. Those two handsome woodcutters. An evil place, the forest, everyone knew it, full of temptations and imps  (Was Quotes) There are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret  (Was Quotes) Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell  (Was Quotes) Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world  (Was Quotes) It was then, so curiously, that Miranda held out her arms... And Rachaela went into the arms of Miranda, and together they wept,... like ancient sisters in a tragedy  (Was Quotes) It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one's existence  (Was Quotes) Why should a bad marriage have been so much more compelling than no marriage? Why had I clung to my misery so? Why did I believe it was all I had?  (Was Quotes) It was admitted by all her friends, and also by her enemies - who were in truth the more numerous and active body of the two - that Lizzie Greystock had done very well with herself  (Was Quotes) She was what an aristocrat should be, porcelain and silk, unreachable, gracious, untainted by the dust of all this common death  (Was Quotes) Roilant caught himself, with exasperation, slipping into vacuous philosophy, a sure sign his opinion of life was at its very lowest  (Was Quotes) Earlier 18th century literary language was not supple enough to connect the life of the imagination to that of the street  (Was Quotes) If I wrote that women could be unkind, I was considered a traitor - as if it were not worse treachery to pretend that all women were kind  (Was Quotes) I couldn't understand why my productivity went down when I had deliberately made more time available to write. Then I realized it was because I wasn't flying as much  (Was Quotes) For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a little lost and then figure out the way back  (Was Quotes)
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