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We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.
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One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner…
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God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to…
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When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e.,…
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Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want…
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Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz…
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Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one SAYS. 'Love'…
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You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about…
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Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try…
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No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.
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Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an…
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No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.
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Everything takes you back to yourself. When you get there, you know you never left. You only dreamt you left. You have…
— Mooji
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Oh, they've been putting in the long hours ... But is that because they don't have the skills, and everything takes twice…
— Louise Wilson
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Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life
— Donna Tartt
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The sea, the majestic sea, breaks everything, crushes everything, cleans everything, takes everything...from me
— Corinne Bailey Rae
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Trusting your intuition is like learning to ride a bike. Everything takes practice before it becomes second nature.
— James Van Praagh
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Everything takes more time than you thought, everything costs more money than you thought, and almost everything turns out not quite as…
— Merlin Mann
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The best way to find out things, if you come to think of it, is not to ask questions at all. If…
— Elspeth Huxley
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Everything takes me forever. It's all lurch, flail. I hope that is good news to you writers.
— Anne Lamott
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In politics one should not expect big jumps. Everything takes time.
— Sharad Pawar
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I don't understand why, in entertainment, the hours are as long as they are. It seems like everything takes forever, and no…
— Janeane Garofalo
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Everything takes time. You have to love the journey and the process.
— Benson Henderson
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Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly.…
— Robert Lanza
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