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the psychological need to believe that others take you as seriously as you take yourself. There is nothing particularly wrong with it, as psychological needs…

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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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Growing up with the childhood that I had, I learned to never let a man make me feel helpless, and it also… — Christina Aguilera
I feel the need of relations and friendship, of affection, of friendly intercourse.... I cannot miss these things without feeling, as does… — Vincent Van Gogh
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It might take us a lifetime to find out what it is we need to say. Most of us fall into where… — Emmet Gowin
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. — Lily Tomlin
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain. — Lily Tomlin
We read to learn and to grow, to laugh, to be motivated, and to understand things we've never been exposed to. We… — Joan Bauer
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No shame in saying that I felt a loneliness drifting through me. Funny how it was, everyone perched in their own little… — Colum McCann

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