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Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.
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You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing.
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I want my stories to be something about life that causes people to say, not, oh, isn't that the truth, but to…
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A story is not like a road to followit's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while,…
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Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in…
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I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people.
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What if people really did that - sent their love through the mail to get rid of it? What would it be…
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The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.
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Children of course are monstrously conventional, repelled at once by whatever is off-center, out of whack, unmanageable. And being an only child…
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I saw how the forms of love might be maintained with a condemned person but with the love in fact measured and…
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For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel,
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I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around…
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What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.
— Ovid
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Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
— Ovid
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Dripping water hollows out a stone
— Ovid
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Oh, hear Him within you speaking this infinite love,moving like some divine and audible leaven,lifting the sky of the soul with expansions…
— Jessica Powers
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What a thing it is to sit absolutely alone, in the forest, at night, cherished by this wonderful, unintelligible, perfectly innocent speech,…
— Thomas Merton
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Rage keeps the person who feels it company. It moves into the hollows left by grief and loss, and turns inside you…
— Paula Sharp
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that…
— Anthony Trollope
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I am going a long way With these thou seëst-if indeed I go (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt)-…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Throughout our lives friends enclose us like pairs of parentheses. They shift our boundaries; crater our terrain. They fume through the cracks…
— Beth Kephart
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Patti Callahan Henry’s THE STORIES WE TELL is a lyrical exploration of love and longing, secrets and suspicion, family and friendship, all…
— Mary Kay Andrews
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It is a thought as sweet as heaven to know that in the minds of each of us the may by the…
— Eve Langley
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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
— Lucretius
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