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Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'No, you lied to…
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Later I would come to believe that erotic ties were all a spell, a temporary psychosis, even a kind of violence, or…
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All the way out I listen to the car AM radio, bad lyrics of trailer park love, gin and tonic love, strobe…
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Basically, I realized I was living in that awful stage of life between twenty-six to and thirty-seven known as stupidity. It's when…
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For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one…
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There seemed nothing so true as a yellow tree.
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Better to think of writing, of what one does, as an activity, rather than an identity to keep the calling a verb…
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The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father.…
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The detachment of the artist is kind of creepy. It's kind of rude, and yet really it's where art comes from. It's…
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Love is art, not truth. It’s like painting scenery.
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If one loves stories, then one would naturally love the story of the story. Or the story behind the story, pick your…
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To write a short story, you have to be able to stay up all night.
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The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I…
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I was a pretty scrappy, tough kid; I got in all sorts of fights at school. I defended myself - boys didn't…
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In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose…
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The big guys choose who they want to fight and they think about history: 'how many times I defended my title.' They…
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I tried not to think about my life. I did not have any good solid plans for it long-term - no bad…
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I defended him [John McCain] in those hearings when some stupid-ass right-wing idiot accused him of being the Manchurian Candidate, that somehow…
— Senator John Kerry
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If you say you are my friend, dont bleeping lie to my face. I was only trying to be a friend and…
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When everyone else was talking' smack, I defended you. When everyone else left, I was there. When nobody cared, I loved you.…
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People used to talk bad about you, I defended you and told them they were wrong. Stupid me, I finally see what…
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