How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

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I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images...

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images...

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more...

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more...

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I...

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I...

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons....

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons....

Jazz is the music of the body

Jazz is the music of the body

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created...

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created...

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more...

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more...

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive,...

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive,...

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are...

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are...

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more...

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more...

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation,...

The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation,...

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but...

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but...

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are...

I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are...

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty...

I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty...