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I have now seen sucrose beaches and water a very bright blue. I have seen an all-red leisure suit with flared lapels. I have smelled…

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We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.
One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner…
God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to…
When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e.,…
Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want…
Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz…
Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one SAYS. 'Love'…
You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about…
Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try…
No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.
Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an…
No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.

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Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful. — Albert Camus
One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realizing this a mon should take no pleasure in the respect of… — Gautama Buddha
Mon cher ami, let's not give them any pretext, no matter how small, for judging us!!! Otherwise, we'll be left in shreds.… — Albert Camus
Dans mon coeur, je vais toujours être un Canadiens./Ill always be a Hab at heart. — Saku Koivu
Vicky became more serious and her tone more reflective as she remarked, "Life has so much pain that one needs a catharsis.… — Flora Rheta Schreiber
Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it. — Norman McLaren
Soon the earth will tilt on its axis and begin to dance to the reggae beat to the accompaniment of earthquake. And… — Peter Tosh
Reggae must be lived, not played. It is a lifebeat everytime, mon — Peter Tosh
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While reading writers of great formulatory power — Henry James, Santayana, Proust — I find I can scarcely get through a page… — Joseph Epstein
It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail. — Bob Marley
Altruism is for those who can't endure their desires. There's a world as ambiguous as a moan, a pleasure moan our earnest… — Stephen Dunn

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