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I am not a perfect friend, and it is impossible not to rebuff or be rebuffed if you move about the world.

~Anne Roiphe

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I really consider myself a writer, and a writer who is sometimes a social critic. I'm not an ideologue, I don't join a party. I follow along and take notes. Sometimes I throw in my two cents.

~Anne Roiphe

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I have always been fascinated by the human mind, conscious and unconscious - that is what writing and reading is about, too. The why of your life and the why of your choices and the what has happened that you know and the what that you don't know is really riveting, and psychoanalysts share my wonder at how it all unfolds.

~Anne Roiphe

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If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all.

~Anne Roiphe

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You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else.

~Anne Roiphe

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Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.

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Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.

~Anne Roiphe

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Biography

Nationality: Unknown

Type: Journalist

Born: December 25th, 1935

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