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...hideous psychic fallout they'd all endured both in active marijuana-dependency and then in marijuana-detox: the social isolation, anxious lassitude, and the hyperself-consciousness that then reinforced…

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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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Black power got to moving so fast that we miscalculated the fallout. I certainly have to take some of the responsibility of… — Cleveland Sellers
I had always wanted to lend my voice to a character. I did a voice for this video game, called 'Fallout 3,'… — Odette Annable
Any property may now be taken for the benefit of another private party, but the fallout from this decision will not be… — Sandra Day O'Connor
Welcome thy neighbor into thy fallout shelter. He'll come in handy if you run out of food. — Unknown Author
Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing. — Nora Roberts
Almost all of my early art dealt with the fallout from middle-class taboos, the messy, the ambivalent emotions couples felt, the inherent… — Eric Fischl
Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were… — John Charles Polanyi
Sales of George Orwell's 1984 have skyrocketed. It's true. So the fallout from the (NSA spying) scandal is worse than we thought.… — Conan O'Brien
The Byrds flew off the fallout shelter, eight miles high and falling fast. — Don McLean
The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with… — Jayne Ann Krentz
The greatest fallout of the space program, ... was not the close-up view of the moon, but a look at spaceship Earth… — Theodore Hesburgh
Education is civil defence against media fallout. — Marshall McLuhan

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