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life's endless war against the self you cannot live without.

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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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Where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand; For… — John Milton
Over time, however, the endless war in Iraq began to play a role in natural selection. Only idiots signed up; only idiots… — Ted Rall
Happy people are not their own enemies, do not carry on an endless war with their souls. We may be fiercely at… — Lewis B. Smedes
It may take endless wars and unbearable population pressure to force-feed a technology to the point where it can cope with space.… — Robert A. Heinlein
I can't quite remember the exact moment when I became obsessed with writing a play about the seemingly endless war in the… — Lynn Nottage
It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's… — Michael Scheuer
For what can war, but endless war, still breed? — John Milton
The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit—for gallantry in defeat, for… — John Steinbeck
Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break… — Rebecca Solnit
The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity,… — John Pilger
She supposed they were imperfections, those marks, but they didn't feel that way to her; they were a history, cut into his… — Cassandra Clare
life's endless war against the self you cannot live without. — David Foster Wallace

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