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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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If He opens a door for you, thereby making Himself known, pay no heed if your do not measure up to this.…
— Ibn Ata Allah
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It is completely incomprehensible to us how God can reveal himself and to some extent make himself known in created beings: eternity…
— Herman Bavinck
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When He gives, He shows you His Kindness; when He deprives, He shows you His power. And in all that, He is…
— Ibn Ata Allah
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God will of necessity always be a hidden God. His loudest cry is silence. If he does not manifest himself to us,…
— Louis Evely
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Disguise is central to God's way of dealing with us human beings. Not because God is playing games with us but because…
— Richard John Neuhaus
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My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances…
— Frederick Buechner
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Impossible, I realize, to enter another’s solitude. If it is true that we can ever come to know another human being, even…
— Paul Auster
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A God made by man undoubtedly has need of man to make himself known to man.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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