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Addiction (n.) is the disease of our age. It proceeds from our chronic spiritual hunger and is nourished by our focus on getting and spending, and on news and gossip outside ourselves.
Advice (n.) is often what one asks for when one already knows the answer but wishes she didn't.
Ambivalence (n.) is a tune with a danceable rhythm all its own.
Art (n.) is divine play, not dogged work. Thus, perfectionism is its enemy.
Art (n.) is that domain in which the unconscious serves to transmute the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth.
A Bad marriage (n.) is that wherein friends, ironically enough are the invisible glue, and f we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving-instead of actually getting up and leaving.
Being single (n.) is unadvisable for a woman. There is simply no dignified way for a woman to live alone.
Biography (n.) is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
Blame (n.) is a feeling that is at the same time miserable and wonderful, as one feels being forever in the right.
A Book (n.) is a box brimming with incendiary material. As such, it is the reader who strikes the match.