“I think coldness is chic among writers, and particularly ironic coldness. What is absolutely not allowable is sadness. People will do anything rather than to acknowledge that they are sad.”
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We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does.
It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.
One should never be sexually involved with anyone one genuinely cares for. A sexual relationship guarantees a loss.
In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement.