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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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There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and…
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There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe,…
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How can the world progress if women don't consider men ... the Man ... first?
— Arlene Dahl
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A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks.
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
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For life makes no mistakes and always gives man that which man first gives himself.
— Neville Goddard
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Unless a man first finds himself, finds his own essential nature and destiny, and begins from them, all his efforts and achievements…
— Rodney Collin
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God never deserts a man, unless He is deserted by that man first. For even if a man shall have committed grievous…
— Caesarius of Arles
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Have faith in man, whether he appears to you to be a very learned one or a most ignorant one. Have faith…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Middle age is the time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
— Richard Armour
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To the memory of the Man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.
— Unknown Author
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Man first creates the universe in his image, and then turns round to say that God created man in his image... As…
— Neel Burton
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Every monster was a man first.
— Edward Albee
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