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Dostoevsky wrote fiction about identity, moral value, death, will, sexual vs. spiritual love, greed, freedom, obsession, reason, faith, suicide. And he did it without ever…
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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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Today, people are talking about many things: the danger of war and frequent clashes, water and air pollution, hunger, the increasing erosion…
— Fethullah Gulen
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Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over…
— Milton Friedman
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"Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to…
— Ayn Rand
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Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human…
— Ronald Reagan
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When a hunter is in a tree stand with high moral values and with the proper hunting ethics and richer for the…
— Fred Bear
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In contrast to ethical relativism, Christianity sets forth a system of absolute moral values and affirms that God has placed within the…
— Martin Luther
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We must show that liberty is not merely one particular value but that it is the source and condition of most moral…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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The Bush Administration do have moral values. Their moral values are very explicit: shine the boots of the rich and the powerful,…
— Noam Chomsky
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There's a definite sense this morning on the part of the Kerry voters that perhaps this is code, 'moral values,' is code…
— Diane Sawyer
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I am extraordinarily lucky, I was born in a family of strong moral values, and in my life I was able to…
— Jose Carreras
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Policemen and laws can never replace customs, traditions and moral values as a means for regulating human behavior. At best, the police…
— D. Todd Christofferson
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Scouting exposes young men to people and experiences that encourage and nurture positive moral values. But we mustn't take Scouting for granted.…
— Unknown Author
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