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Jayne Anne Phillips

  • Love is the outlaw's duty.

    • Jayne Anne Phillips,
    • "Gemcrack," Black Tickets ()
  • Literature can teach us how to live before we live, and how to die before we die. I believe that writing is practice for death, and for every other transformation human beings encounter.

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  • Talk between women friends is always therapy.

    • Jayne Anne Phillips
  • As before, there is a great silence, with no end in sight. The writer surrenders, listening.

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Jayne Anne Phillips, U.S. writer

(1952)