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- Cities produce love and yet feel none. A strange thing when you think about it, but perhaps fitting. Cities need that love more than most…
- 'Drown' was always a hybrid book. It's connected stories - partially a story collection but partially a novel. I always wanted the reader to decide…
- People are always fascinated by infidelity because, in the end - whether we've had direct experience or not - there's part of you that knows…
- Personally I always feel like I could use a little more of poetry apothegmatic power in my own work but we're always lacking something.
- I mean, the nation in which we live - and the world in which we live - is so extraordinarily more like a future than…
- It wasn't that I couldn't write. I wrote every day. I actually worked really hard at writing. At my desk by 7 A.M., would work…
- My thing is, I'm just way too harsh. It's an enormous impediment, and that's just the truth of it. It doesn't make me any better,…
- There are a couple of strategies for writing about an absence or writing about a loss. One can create the person that was lost, develop…
- When I write, what I long for is not more realism or fiction but more courage. That's what I always find myself short on and…
- Nothing more exhilarating ... than saving yourself by the simple act of waking.
- We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that will explain things, including ourselves. If…
- Tell her that you love her hair, that you love her skin, her lips, because, in truth, you love them more than you love your…
- You said i could call you when i wanted but that you wouldn’t call me. you have to decide where and when, you said. if…
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- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- 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