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My mother was born in Switzerland, my stepfather in Canada. ”
All I am is a writer and a mom. ”
The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is. ”
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. ”
So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful. ”
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything. ”
AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them. ”
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. ”
It is not the position, but the disposition. ”
Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone. ”