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My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and…
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But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world.
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That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.
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It was my view then, and still is, that you don't make war without knowing why. Knowledge of course, is always imperfect,…
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A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.
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All that peace, man, if felt so good it hurt. I want to hurt it back.
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Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.
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you can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the…
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The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with…
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Everything was such a damned nice idea when it was an idea.
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I guess we're really brothers, aren't we? Don't know what that means, except it means that some of the same things we…
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Together we understood what terror was: you're not human anymore. You're a shadow. You slip out of your own skin, like molting,…
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A strong woman is a woman at work, cleaning out the cesspool of the ages, and while she shovels, she talks about…
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When you have brought up kids, there are memories you store directly in your tear ducts.
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When your house contains such a complex of piping, flues, ducts, wires, lights, inlets, outlets, ovens, sinks, refuse disposers, hi-fi re-verberators, antennae,…
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Intravenous injections of extract from dog's pancreas, removed from seven to ten weeks after ligation of the ducts, invariably exercises a reducing…
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We exist with a wind whispering inside and our moon flexing. Amid the ducts, inside the basilica of bones.
— Jack Gilbert
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The child had indeed shut up but all the questions that had accumulated on his tongue circulated in his mouth, moved through…
— Elif Safak
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To my embarrassment, I was crying again. Real girl tears for the second time, these ones born out of frustration. That didn't…
— C.E. Murphy
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For some reason, my temper was hardwired to my tear ducts. I usually cried when I was angry, a humiliating tendency.
— Stephenie Meyer
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The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear…
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