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We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.
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One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner…
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God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to…
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When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e.,…
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Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want…
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Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz…
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Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one SAYS. 'Love'…
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You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about…
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Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try…
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No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.
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Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an…
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No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.
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Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting…
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I kind of wish people didn’t know who I am, that I could just lie, say I’m a speechwriter for Obama. This…
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If you're really successful at bullshitting, it means you're not hanging around enough people smarter than you.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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If you don't go do what you wanna do, you're just bullshitting yourself.
— Carroll Shelby
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Painting can also be too earnest at times and that's a drag. You don't want to go in that direction either. It…
— Joe Bradley
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And now I realize Lindsay's not fearless. She's terrified. She's terrified that people will find out she's faking, bullshitting her way through…
— Lauren Oliver
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Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want…
— David Foster Wallace
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We have been sitting here all night bullshitting and we still don’t know what to do.
— Tao Lin
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That be the jealousy talking," Gator said, in no way perturbed. "I can't help the way the women love me. I was…
— Christine Feehan
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There's that horrible-beautiful moment, that bitter-sweet impasse where you know that somebody is bullshitting you but they're doing it with such panache…
— Irvine Welsh
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