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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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All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know very little…
— John Banville
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Eating alone is a disappointment. But not eating matter more, is hollow and green, has thorns like a chain of fish hooks,…
— Pablo Neruda
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The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.
— Vera Nazarian
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Organic chemistry is the study of organs; inorganic chemistry is the study of the insides of organs.
— Max Shulman
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I felt so full of gratitude and humility that I clasped my hands in front of me, closed my eyes and said…
— Cathy Freeman
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I ain't sleeping. I'm just taking a good look at the insides of my eyelids.
— Jonathan Raban
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Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides.
— E. M. Forster
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I've solved the mystery: You have to submit silently. Open up, let go. Let anything penetrate you, even the most painful things.…
— Klaus Kinski
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If we were truly created by God, why do we occasionally bite the insides of our mouths?
— Dara O Briain
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I think a lot of people compare their insides to other people’s outsides.
— Emma Stone
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The most relaxing thing i do, hang halfway out a 3rd floor window, and look at rocks if i fall out. Well…
— Al Kaline
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She had six months at most left to live. She had cancer, she hissed. A filthy growth eating her insides away. There…
— Helen Hodgman
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