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As long as civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have seldom written a story, long or short, that I did not have to write and rewrite. There are single stories of mine that… — Sherwood Anderson
Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts. — Andre Gide
Time is what makes good stories. Much has been cooking for a long time, and at last finds an out in narration one day. That's… — Barry Hannah
A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting view-point is a… — E. M. Forster
Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides. — E. M. Forster
They believe that if they do get published, a wonderful new life is in store. It will turn out that deep down they are really… — Anne Lamott
Some years ago, not long after I moved to Los Angeles from New York, I attended a television industry party. When a man asked my… — Carol Muske-Dukes
Yes, but I - you know, it's been such a long time, I'm sure that I've got cousins and uncles that I've never met before,… — Rafael Palmeiro
I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this problem of not being… — Olivier Martinez
We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby. — Elizabeth Janeway
I'm a feminist. I've been a female for a long time now. It'd be stupid not to be on my own side. — Maya Angelou
If I had it my way, I would have just kept it short forever. Of course, men like long hair. There's no two ways about… — Emma Watson
What little wilderness remains displays the patterns we must return to, if our species and as many others as now remain are to persist here… — Stephanie Mills
I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as… — Amory Lovins
In my heart I know you didn't come here just for me, you came here because you believe in what this country can be. In… — Barack Obama
Angel, saint, Devil's spawn, good or evil, you've got me pinned to the wall and labeled as yours until the day I die. And if… — Virginia C. Andrews
The gas-cylinders had by this time been put into position on the front line. A special order came round imposing severe penalties on anyone who… — Robert Graves
Don't believe stories which you see in the papers about troops asking as a special privilege not to be relieved. We stick it, at all… — Unknown Author

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