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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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But what a cruel thing is war to separate and destroy families and friends.
— Robert E. Lee
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What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.
— Robert E. Lee
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What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has…
— Robert E. Lee
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arrears, n. My faithfulness was as unthinking as your lapse. Of all the things I though would go wrong, I never thought…
— David Levithan
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He does not like showing his feelings and would rather do a cruel thing than open his heart freely.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.
— David Levithan
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This story ["The Depressed Person"] was the most painful thing I ever wrote. It's about narcissism, which is a part of depression.…
— David Foster Wallace
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Time, Ms. McHenry," Townsend said. "It can be a cruel, cruel thing
— Ally Carter
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Waking up in early morning is a cruel thing to me . I'm still in the blur mode :(
— JezzSwaG
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A story's birth is a sudden event. The start, a happy accident. The end, the fate for which it's ment. A story…
— Princess Tutu
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