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Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night. They…
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I could hear the knock and whistle of the water pipes, the purr of the calico cat. And at that moment a…
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When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself.
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We all spend so much time worrying about the future that the present moment slips right out of our hands. And so…
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Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to…
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It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.
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Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.
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In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to…
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Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is experienced, what is experienced…
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I think it's very funny that someone would exaggerate to make himself look worse.
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It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing…
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They abandon the Ambrosial Nectar and turn to poison, they earn poison, and poison is their only wealth.
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When life is hard and the day has been long, the ideal dinner is not four perfect courses, each in a lovely…
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I could hear the knock and whistle of the water pipes, the purr of the calico cat. And at that moment a…
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A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a…
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O cold ! O shivery ! It was your ambrosial beauty. Forget, forgive. Kismet. Let me off this once.
— James Joyce
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Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth.
— E. M. Forster
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The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to…
— Edward Dahlberg
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The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls Upon the Sovereign One's immortal head Were shaken,…
— Homer
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Blessed, blessed is their Guru, whose mouth tastes the Ambrosial Fruit of the Lord.
— Guru Gobind Singh
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