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It is tragic and sad and chaotic and lovely. All life is the same, as citizens of the human State: the animating limits are within,…

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We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.
One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner…
God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to…
When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e.,…
Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want…
Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz…
Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one SAYS. 'Love'…
You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about…
Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try…
No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.
Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an…
No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.

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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action. — Felix Adler
So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand, slate, and… — Johann Gottfried Herder
A strong feeling of adventure is animating those who are working on bacterial viruses, a feeling that they have a small part… — Max Delbruck
The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art… — Georges Braque
In the etheric body are centered the forces animating man's physical vehicle, so disease is evidenced in the etheric before it manifests… — Corinne Heline
Racism is the ultimate ignorance in that it relates 'self' to the body instead of the Consciousness - Awareness - animating and… — David Icke
Many years after animating Ariel, I continue to draw her, doodling as I talk on the phone, absent-mindedly passing time in a… — Glen Keane
I used to think that animation was about moving stuff. In order to make it really great, you bounce it, squash it,… — Glen Keane
It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building. — Louis Sullivan
And when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet; whence he blew Soul-animating… — William Wordsworth
Malice remains its animating impulse. — Janet Malcolm
O ye children of men! The fundamental purpose animating the Faith of God and His Religion is to safeguard the interests and… — BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h

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