“ Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs. ”
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“ To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self. ”
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“ To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self. ”
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“ To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves – there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. ”
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“ I was in love with New York. I do not mean ‘love’ in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and never love anyone quite that way again. ”
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“ Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from which selfrespect springs. ”
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“ I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story. ”
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“ I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear. ”
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“ I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story. ”
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“ The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. I suppose that it begins or does not begin in the cradle. ”
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“ Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought? ”
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“ Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone. ”
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“ Another thing I need to do, when I'm near the end of the book, is sleep in the same room with it...Somehow the book doesn't leave you when you're asleep right next to it. ”
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“ Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs. ”
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“ I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what Ii see and what it means, what I want, and what I fear. ”
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“ There is in Hollywood, as in all cultures in which gambling is the central activity, a lowered sexual energy, an inability to devote more than token attention to the preoccupations of the society outside. The action is everything, more consuming than sex, more immediate than politics; more important always than the acquisition of money, which is never, for the gambler, the true point of the exercise. ”
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“ Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before? ”
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“ Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. ”
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“ Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day… ”
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“ Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day… ”
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“ Vegas is the most extreme and allegorical of American settlements, bizarre and beautiful in its venality and in its devotion to immediate gratification. ”
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“ A young woman with long hair and a short white halter dress walks through the casino at the Riviera in Las Vegas at one in the morning. It was precisely this moment that made Play It As It Lays begin to tell itself to me. ”
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“ Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power. ”
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“ I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what Ii see and what it means, what I want, and what I fear. ”
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“ To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. ”
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