Public behavior is merely private character writ large.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full of pain, but I like that. It's a reality, and I just accept it as something not to be avoided.
Everyone has a private self and a public self.
People don't know how to behave in public anymore.
I'm not such a public person.
If you're a public figure, people have the right to speculate and gossip.
The public is a part of my real life.
Public downfalls are more painful and humiliating than private ones.
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.
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