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The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.

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Now that physics is proving the intelligence of the universe what are we to do about the stupidity of mankind? I include myself. I know that the earth...more

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Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.

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Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?

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The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present and future. The division does not exist. What doe...more

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There will be a future. We believe in our unreality too strongly to give it up.

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Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.

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Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those things you include. What lies beyond the margin of th...more

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When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires. No-one can legislate love; it cannot be given orders ...more