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Great sex is not a pleasant soak in the tub, with the scented candle burning. Great sex is more like a bomb exploding inside your right mind.

Amy Bloom

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Amy Bloom
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 18
Film Producer
Novelist
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Social Worker
Writer
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It takes something to get married: nerve, hope, a strong desire to make a certain statement - and it takes something to stay married: more hope, determination, a sense of humor, and needs that are best met by being in a pair.
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My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.
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I do not say what I feel, and people often take that for shyness, even kindness.
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Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa.
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I have made the best and happiest ending that I can in this world, made it out of the flax and netting and leftover trim of someone else's life, I know, but made it to keep the innocent safe and the guilty punished, and I have made it as the world should be and not as I have found it.
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Learning to listen, letting people finish their sentences, and most of all, the habit of noticing the difference between what people say and how they say it. {on the habits of psychoanalytic training and practice applied to fiction writing} The gap between what people tell you and what's really going on is what interests me.
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All intimacy is rare-that's what makes it precious.
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You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.
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For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise.
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Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
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The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.
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Aging is a chance to make what was good, great, and what was never so good, better...
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And sometimes we cling because the memory is so painful that we can't stop visiting it and hoping to make it come out differently. The risk of letting go is that we have to confront our own selves and our own possibilities.
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There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.
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they danced as though they'd been waiting all their lives for each song.
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I met Jay Jonhson. I won him the way poor people occasionally win the lottery: Shameless perseverance and embarrassingly dumb luck, and every time I see one of those sly, toothless, beaten-down souls on TV holding a winning ticket, I think, Go, team.
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The library is every child's lighthouse. It is every person's sanctuary. It is every town and county's fortress in the face of ignorance, intrusion and bad behavior.
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Be real and unashamed. Even of your faults.
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A blind man can see how much I love you
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Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.
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