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Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see…
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The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
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We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.
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Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing.
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You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.
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We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate…
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Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the…
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Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them…
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I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,…
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I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a realist writer,…
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I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come…
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The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for…
— Alexander Hamilton
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If youre going to play the game properly, youd better know every rule.
— Barbara Jordan
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Primarily, every rule change over the past ten years has been against the pitchers - lowering the mound and the designated hitter.
— Gaylord Perry
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Arbitrary rules teach kids discipline: If every rule made sense, they wouldn't be learning respect for authority, they'd be learning logic.
— Stephen Colbert
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Every rule in the book can be broken, except one - be who you are, and become all you were meant to…
— Sydney J. Harris
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It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still…
— Harold Hamm
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The work to me is everything, and I would throw every rule overboard and send them to the bottom of the sea…
— Thomas John Barnardo
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Every rule should be broken at least one time.
— Poppy Montgomery
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Understand that for every rule which I have mentioned from the Quran, the Devil has one to match it, which he puts…
— Al-Ghazali
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If it's real enlightenment...you're dealing with someone who's broken through every rule, every barrier, every do and do not, and they've reached…
— Frederick Lenz
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Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
— Margaret Fuller
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There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
— James Thurber
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