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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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My uncle, Mr. Stephen Maple, had been at the same time the most successful and the least respectable of our family, so…
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Madame Ratignolle hoped that Robert would exercise extreme caution in dealing with the Mexicans, who, she considered, were a treacherous people, unscrupulous…
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I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
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His eyes were bright, and, indeed, he scarcely knew whether they held dreams or realities...and in five minutes she had filled the…
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She was not good on the phone. She needed the face, the pattern of eyes, nose, trembling mouth... People talking were meant…
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The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful…
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And when I came in with tears in my eyes, you always knew whether I needed you to hold me or just…
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As for my father, I never knew whether he believed God was a mathematician but he certainly believed God could count and…
— Norman Maclean
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