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Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.
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You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing.
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I want my stories to be something about life that causes people to say, not, oh, isn't that the truth, but to…
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A story is not like a road to followit's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while,…
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Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in…
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I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people.
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What if people really did that - sent their love through the mail to get rid of it? What would it be…
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The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.
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Children of course are monstrously conventional, repelled at once by whatever is off-center, out of whack, unmanageable. And being an only child…
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I saw how the forms of love might be maintained with a condemned person but with the love in fact measured and…
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For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel,
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I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around…
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The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was…
— C L R James
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I know plenty of actresses in their early thirties who look amazing, although there's that old saying: 'Ladies get older, men get…
— Scott Porter
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It wasn't being an alcoholic - it was going wild. It happened when I got famous. It was like having my teens…
— Julie Walters
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I think I was very lucky that I didn't get well-known until my early thirties. If it had happened when I was…
— Eric McCormack
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I didn't cry at my father's funeral, and I felt guilty about that. Of course, he got sick not too long after…
— Billy Bob Thornton
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Mozart, who was buried in a pauper’s grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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They were all in their early thirties. An age at which it is sometimes hard to admit that what you are living…
— Alice Munro
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I suffered when I was in my late twenties and early thirties. I was awkward, I stuck out, I was nerdy.
— Stephen Merchant
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I used to have about a hundred suits in my late twenties and early thirties when my stock was riding high and…
— Sebastian Horsley
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I suppose I'm led to do so by the fact of what happened to my contemporaries - people whom I've admired, people…
— George Woodcock
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Suzanne's Diary For Nicholas is a story for people who have loved, lost, and tried to find love again. When I was…
— James Patterson
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