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- The most purely autobiographical fiction requires pure invention. Nobody ever wrote a more autobiographical story than 'The Metamorphosis'.
- Our lives look a lot more interesting when they’re filtered through the sexy Facebook interface. We star in our own movies, we photograph ourselves incessantly,…
- Seriously, the world is changing so quickly that if you had any more than 80 years of change I dont see how you could stand…
- You see more sitting still than chasing after.
- I used to think it was hard to write, and I still find the process more or less unpleasant, but if I know what I'm…
- The novelist has more and more to say to readers who have less and less time to read: where to find the energy to engage…
- Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular. But the realism…
- The reason this system can’t be overthrown in this country,” Walter said, “is all about freedom. The reason the free market in Europe is tempered…
- The more you pursue distractions, the less effective any particular distraction is, and so I'd had to up various dosages, until, before I knew it,…
- THE CORRECTION, when it finally came, was not an overnight bursting of a bubble but a much more gentle letdown, a year-long leakage of value…
- But she was seventeen now and not actually dumb. She knew that you could love somebody more than anything and still not love the person…
- He and his wife loved each other and brought each other daily pain. Everything else he was doing in his life, even his longing for…
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- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
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- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle