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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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There happen to be whole large parts of adult American life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such part involves…
— David Foster Wallace
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President Obama and Mitt Romney both gave commencement speeches over the last few days. Obama was like, 'You can be whatever you…
— Jimmy Fallon
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One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It…
— Edward Gibbon
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The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. I wish…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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We are, all of us, exploring a world none of us understands...searching for a more immediate, ecstatic, and penetrating mode of living...for…
— Hillary Clinton
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And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have…
— Garry Trudeau
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