"Sophisticated readers understand that writers work out their……" — Amy Bloom
"Sophisticated readers understand that writers work out their anger, their conflicts, their endless grief and rolling list of loss, through their stories. That however mean-spirited or diabolical, it's only a story. That the darkness in the soul is shaped into type and lies there, brooding and inert, black on the page, and active, dangerous, only in the reader's mind. Actually, harmless. I am not harmless."
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43 Quotes by Amy Bloom
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It takes something to get married: nerve, hope, a strong desire to make a certain statement - and it takes…
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I have made the best and happiest ending that I can in this world, made it out of the flax…
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Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
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All intimacy is rare-that's what makes it precious.
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Be real and unashamed. Even of your faults.
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Great sex is not a pleasant soak in the tub, with the scented candle burning. Great sex is more like…
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In a true partnership, the kind worth striving for, the kind worth insisting on, and even, frankly, worth divorcing over,…
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Boundaries are the lines we draw that mark off our autonomy and that of other people, that protect our privacy…
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I met Jay Jonhson. I won him the way poor people occasionally win the lottery: Shameless perseverance and embarrassingly dumb…
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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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There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.
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Learning to listen, letting people finish their sentences, and most of all, the habit of noticing the difference between what…
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There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.
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Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist,…
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Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
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I've always been on the side of science that tries to help man. I play an active part with the…
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The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he…
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Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide.
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Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still…
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When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer…
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