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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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After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you implored Washington…
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Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her.
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I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear…
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We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by…
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One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think the war…
— Bertrand Russell
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Some golfers blast their ball from traps, With one adroit explosion, But others, out in ten perhaps, Depend upon erosion.
— Richard Armour
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The day that hunger is eradicated from the earth there will be the greatest spiritual explosion the world has ever known. Humanity…
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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One [idea] was that the Universe started its life a finite time ago in a single huge explosion, and that the present…
— Fred Hoyle
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You have to pull all your energy back to the present moment. And the moment the whole energy becomes a pool, here…
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