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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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The wrath of God is a way of saying that I have been living in a way that is contrary to the…
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Time says hush: by the gong of time you live. Listen and you hear time saying you were silent long before you…
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There are some who dream their lives away, but end up doing nothing, and others who do their lives away, and end…
— Laurence Overmire
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We sleep 1/3 of our lives away.
— Albert Einstein
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I dream that I have found us both again, With spring so many strangers' lives away, And we, so free, Out walking…
— Thomas Pynchon
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It now lately sometimes seemed a black miracle to me that people could actually care deeply about a subject or pursuit, and…
— David Foster Wallace
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He'd once known a man who said that life hinged on the moment, that everything changed in the blink of an eye.…
— Derek Landy
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This, more than anything else, is what I have never understood about your people. You can roll dice, and understand that the…
— Robin Hobb
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A thousand for his love expired each day, And those who saw his face, in blank dismay Would rave and grieve and…
— Farid al-Din Attar
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Why? Why do we start drama? why do we threaten to take our own lives away? Why do we harm ourselves?? You…
— Jasmine
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People move on, and they do as they should. But for those who live in the past they're wasting their lives away.
— Jeremy Limn
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Instead of spreading love we're spreading animosity. Lack of understanding, leading lives away from unity.
— will.i.am
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