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We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.
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One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner…
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God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to…
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When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e.,…
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Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want…
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Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz…
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Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one SAYS. 'Love'…
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You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about…
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Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try…
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No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.
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Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an…
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No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.
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If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.
— Annie Dillard
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Confidence is not a guarantee of success, but a pattern of thinking that will improve your likelihood of success, a tenacious search…
— John Eliot
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To a large degree, since the beginning of time, charisma or the lack of it has impacted upon those in quest of…
— John Donne
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I trust and believe that the time spent in this voyage ... will produce its full worth in Natural History; and it…
— Charles Darwin
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The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness…
— Sun Tzu
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Today we no longer ask what really goes on in an atom; we ask what is likely to be observed-and with what…
— Otto Robert Frisch
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There is no likelihood that man can ever tap the power of the atom
— Robert Andrews Millikan
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The likelihood of the formation of life from inanimate matter is 1 to a number with 40,000 noughts after it (1040,000).... It…
— Fred Hoyle
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We are wide open and vulnerable and in all likelihood an activist judge will strike down our Defense of Marriage Act, our…
— Michele Bachmann
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After years spent in Washington, I have become more aware than ever of the government's ineptness and the likelihood of its making…
— Ron Paul
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Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent!
— Brian Tracy
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Placing a time limit on affirmative action would in all likelihood blunt the orchestrated politics of controversy that now bedevils it. And…
— Unknown Author
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