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Interesting verbs are seldom very interesting.
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I've moved away from that sort of deep-ecological extremism. I started to think: what can we do for wild birds right now?…
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[T]o love a specific person, and to identify with his or her struggles and joys as if they were your own, you…
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Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance
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If multiculturalism succeeds in making us a nation of independently empowered tribes, each tribe will be deprived of the comfort of victimhood…
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How could I have thought that I needed to cure myself in order to fit into the 'real' world? I didn't need…
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Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had abandoned by…
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Readers and writers are united in their need for solitude, in their pursuit of substance in a time of ever-increasing evanescence: in…
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If you want to have friends, you have to remember that nobody's perfect.
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The writer’s life is a life of revisions.
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When you stay in your room and rage or sneer or shrug your shoulders, as I did for many years, the world…
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If you read the biographies of people who have written good books, you often see the point where they suddenly come into…
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I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience.…
— Rowan Atkinson
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At the very least, my tastes are out of the ordinary.
— Sherilyn Fenn
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How can you say when you're attracted to something? It's not easy to articulate my tastes.
— Jeff Goldblum
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I was indeed a snob, if you agree with this definition: 'A person who believes that their tastes in a particular area…
— Roger Ebert
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I never want to make a film. I don't wake up in the morning going, 'Ooh, I'd really love to be on…
— Stephen Daldry
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I'm an ecumenical reader, grew up with all sorts of fiction, teach writing, went to the Iowa Writers' Workshop, so my tastes…
— Justin Cronin
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My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.
— Taylor Dane
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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
— Victor Hugo
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I find it a huge strain to be responsible for my tastes and be known and defined by them.
— Jonathan Franzen
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The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times…
— Willa Cather
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I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life… Not that I knew what I…
— Haruki Murakami
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