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Francine du Plessix Gray Quotes: We write out of revenge against reality, to dream and enter the lives of others.
         

We write out of revenge against reality, to dream and enter the lives of others.


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One learns much more by writing fiction, because the insights come from those deeper subconscious levels where the greater and more interesting truths lie.

One learns much more by writing fiction, because the insights come from those deeper subconscious levels where the greater and more interesting truths lie.



Americans and their desire to be novelists, the American novel should be listed in medical dictionaries alongside Megalomania and Obsessional Neuroses.

Americans and their desire to be novelists, the American novel should be listed in medical dictionaries alongside Megalomania and Obsessional Neuroses.



Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make your life bearable.

Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make your life bearable.



Why are there no great women artists?' sounds as ignorant of human geography as the query 'Why are there no Eskimo tennis teams?

Why are there no great women artists?' sounds as ignorant of human geography as the query 'Why are there no Eskimo tennis teams?



I shall never cease to marvel at the way we beg for love and tyranny.

I shall never cease to marvel at the way we beg for love and tyranny.



All our parents have levels of deviousness. We're driven to write about this discrepancy between the bright shining selves they invented and the monsters lurking underneath.

All our parents have levels of deviousness. We're driven to write about this discrepancy between the bright shining selves they invented and the monsters lurking underneath.



Art is both a vengeance against reality and a reconciliation with it.

Art is both a vengeance against reality and a reconciliation with it.



I venture that those of us who are most serene when faced with the possibility of nothingness are the ones who've reached furthest to the downward and upward of their beings.

I venture that those of us who are most serene when faced with the possibility of nothingness are the ones who've reached furthest to the downward and upward of their beings.



As to why people like Joseph Lelyveld are writing memoirs, I think they're just catching on the coattails of the trend.

As to why people like Joseph Lelyveld are writing memoirs, I think they're just catching on the coattails of the trend.



one forgives parents as naturally as one emancipates oneself from them - usually shortly afterward.

one forgives parents as naturally as one emancipates oneself from them - usually shortly afterward.





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For certain, neither of them sees a happy Present, as the gate opens and closes, and one goes in, and the other goes away.

For certain, neither of them sees a happy Present, as the gate opens and closes, and one goes in, and the other goes away.



He is nothing more than one of my pawns. However, he is not a normal pawn. He is a pawn that can get across the whole board in one move.

He is nothing more than one of my pawns. However, he is not a normal pawn. He is a pawn that can get across the whole board in one move.



The sun sees your body, the moon sees your soul.

The sun sees your body, the moon sees your soul.



Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.



Counter football is not something weak teams only can do by the way. It is sometimes said in a way as if counter football is inferior. It's not.

Counter football is not something weak teams only can do by the way. It is sometimes said in a way as if counter football is inferior. It's not.



When his (the good ruler's) task is accomplished and his work done, The people all say, "It happened to us naturally.

When his (the good ruler's) task is accomplished and his work done, The people all say, "It happened to us naturally.



America's got to take a break from foreign wars, and take a break from immigration.

America's got to take a break from foreign wars, and take a break from immigration.



Even the impossible becomes possible through devotion.

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