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In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, Botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the body-mind, the…
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Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.
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I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to…
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Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
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I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
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I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.
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I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
— A. S. Byatt
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I like it when actors get an opportunity to chew into something. They love scenes with beginnings, middles, and ends - scenes…
— Tracy Letts
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Endings are elusive, middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to begin.
— Donald Barthelme
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The same authorities who insist upon beginnings, middles, and ends, declare that Great Literature (by which they mean the stories they have…
— Gene Wolfe
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The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with…
— Anatole Broyard
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What of miniature boats constructed of birch bark and fallen leaves, launched onto cold water clear as air? How many fleets were…
— Paul Harding
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The beginnings were sweet, the endings usually bitter, but the middles were only the tightrope you walked between the one and the…
— Robert Goolrick
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I like to tell stories that have beginnings, middles and ends.
— Eric Kripke
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