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- Begin to wonder what you do write about. Or if you have anything to say. Or even if there is such a thing as a…
- You couldn't pretend you had lost nothing... you had to begin there, not let your blood freeze over. If your heart turned away at this,…
- I feared Sarah was one of those women who instead of laughing said, "That's funny," or instead of smiling said, "That's interesting," or instead of…
- Blasts from the past were like the rooms one entered and re-entered in dreams: they would not stay nailed down. When you returned to them,…
- Love is the answer, said the songs, and that's OK. It was OK, I supposed, as an answer. But no more than that. It was…
- I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?
- Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I just want the…
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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