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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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Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me…
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If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.
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The Work reveals that what you think shouldn't have happened should have happened. It should happened because it did, and no thinking…
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Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know…
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The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so…
— H. L. Mencken
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My whole career can be summed up with 'Ignorance is bliss.' When you do not know better, you do not really worry…
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Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.
— Ron Reagan
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Die never for a god, Nikodemos who should know better - not your soldiers' god, nor any other.
— Janet Morris
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Indians and animals know better how to live than white man; nobody can be in good health if he does not have…
— Unknown Author
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Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
— Bill Shankly
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It can be tempting to blame others for our loss of direction. We get lots of information about life but little education…
— Bernie Siegel
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