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They Spent The First Three Years Of School Getting You To Pretend Stuff And Then The Rest Of It Marking You Down If You Did The Same Thing.

You Always Think, 'oh, If Only I Had A Little Chalet In The Mountains! How Great That Would Be And I'd Do All This Writing' Except, No, I Wouldn't. I'd Do The Same Amount Of Writing I Do Now And The Rest Of The Time I'd Go Stir Crazy. If You're Waiting For The Perfect Moment You'll Never Write A Thing Because It Will Never Arrive. I Have No Routine. I Have No Foolproof Anything. There's Nothing Foolproof.

I'm The Only Person You've Ever Met Who Has Read Longfellow.

Literature Is Not Only A Mirror; It Is A Map, A Geography Of The Mind.

To Live In Prison Is To Live Without Mirrors. To Live Without Mirrors Is To Live Without The Self.