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Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction depends for its…
— Eudora Welty
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There are three necessary elements in a story - exposition, development, and drama. Exposition we may illustrate as "John Fortescue was a solicitor in the…
— Frank O'Connor
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Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the…
— Gerard De Nerval
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Another good reducing exercise consists in placing both hands against the table edge and pushing back
— Robert Quillen
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I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me.
— Evelyn Waugh
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When a guest blogger can't even be bothered sharing their own post on their social networks; they're pretty much admitting 'I don't care about this…
— George Stevens
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You should know what makes one photo brilliant and another. Why one illustration is instructive and another is banal. Why one blurb is clever and…
— Jason Calacanis
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The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It's the expectations that parents have for their daughters, and…
— Anna Quindlen
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Cannot we let [children] be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One's enough.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Take more pleasure in giving what is best to another than in having it for yourself, and then all the world will love you.
— Thomas Jefferson
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My dad said to me the other day, I really am an artistic person. I was shocked as I never saw him as a creative.…
— Robert Pattinson
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You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.
— Catharine MacKinnon
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For everyone who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds - and they've got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're…
— Steve King
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War and culture, those are the two poles of Europe, her heaven and hell, her glory and shame, and they cannot be separated from one…
— Milan Kundera
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Not to borrow the strength of another, nor to rely on one's own strength; to cut off past and future thoughts, and not to live…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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This is another kind of competition, but I'm being coached by an excellent team, and I've got a real strong competitive spirit.
— Peggy Fleming
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I realized that Eastern thought had somewhat more compassion for all living things. Man was a form of life that in another reincarnation might possibly…
— William O. Douglas
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The great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has been to consider war as an episode…
— Simone Weil
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