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The absence of models, in literature as in life, to say nothing of painting, is an occupational hazard for the artist, simply because models in art, i...more

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If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.

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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

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What is always needed in the appreciation of art, or life, is the larger perspective. Connections made, or at least attempted, where none existed befo...more

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I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.