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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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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in…
— Aristophanes
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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I…
— John Ruskin
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I'm probably less serious about my game than I was in the past. I've lost a brother and father in the past…
— Peter Jacobsen
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One thing is certain: for many of those who came back from WWII, the music of Frank Sinatra was no consolation for…
— Pete Hamill
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I feel like I'm really honest in my interviews, to a fault. I've lost friends over it. Major friends. And I'm heartbroken…
— Shia LaBeouf
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I lost relatives to AIDS, a couple of my closest cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high-school friends who never even made…
— Queen Latifah
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If anything, we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost…
— Dennis Prager
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A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with…
— Emma Thompson
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I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.
— Virginia Woolf
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By the time I make my way to the border of Mauritania, to the edge of the Sahara, I see no end…
— Nick Flynn
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Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to…
— James Thurber
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This story ["The Depressed Person"] was the most painful thing I ever wrote. It's about narcissism, which is a part of depression.…
— David Foster Wallace
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