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Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.

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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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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand. — Wislawa Szymborska
Nature, red in tooth and claw. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
I have always tempered my killing with respect for the game pursued. I see the animal not only as a target, but… — Fred Bear
Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed it is… — Victor Hugo
If anyone tells you that you can't achieve your dreams, or puts you down, make your hand into a claw and tell… — Lady Gaga
Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must… — Victor Hugo
The Goddess is not separate from the world – She IS the world, and all things in it: moon, sun, earth, star,… — Starhawk
I get a lot of teenagers going, 'Yo, Krueger,' and honking their horn and giving me the claw. Yeah, I'm recognized. — Robert Englund
The EPA, the Gestapo of government, pure and simply has been one of the major claw-hooks that the government maintains on the… — Tom DeLay
People who claw their way to the top are not likely to find very much wrong with the system that enabled them… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Germination includes the hatching of a meteor and the… — Victor Hugo
Although random mutations influenced the course of evolution, their influence was mainly by loss, alteration, and refinement... Never, however, did that one… — Lynn Margulis

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