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It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies- it seeped in with…
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A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world.
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Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to…
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Our children will be born of our actions. Our accidents will become their destinies. Oh, the actions will remain. It is a…
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But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small…
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Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy.
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Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is…
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Sometimes I think my whole professional life has been based on this hunch I had, early on, that many people feel just…
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I remember so clearly, in the early days, if I had to do a piece of press, they'd phone for me and…
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It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties.
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Work on a computer that is disconnected from the internet.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of…
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The Little Boy and the Old Man Said the little boy, "Sometimes I drop my spoon." Said the old man, "I do…
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Yeah, size is no guarantee of power,” said George. “Look at Ginny.” “What d’you mean?” said Harry. “You’ve never been on the…
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Leonard Aster thanked Fighting Prawn and the Mollusk tribe for their hospitality. “You mean,” said Fighting Prawn, “for not killing you?” “Yes,”…
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Anyway, solitary people interest me. There are so many different ways of being solitary.' 'I know just what you mean,' said X.…
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And there are always people who find their lives have become so unsupportable they believe the best thing they could do would…
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Where I come from," said Archie, "a bloke likes to get to know a girl before he marries her." "Where you come…
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But what would have been the good?" Aslan said nothing. "You mean," said Lucy rather faintly, "that it would have turned out…
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Well,” said Owl, “the customary procedure in such cases is as follows.” “What does Crustimoney Proseedcake mean?” said Pooh. “For I am…
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I understand everything,” he said. “You understand nothing, but it really doesn’t matter, since what you mean is, you’re glad to see…
— William Goldman
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People are always nice; I never get anything mean said to me on the street.
— Chris Lilley
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