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Everything gets horrible. Everything you see gets ugly. Lurid is the word. Doctor Garton said lurid, one time. That's the right word for it. And…

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We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.
One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner…
God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to…
When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e.,…
Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want…
Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz…
Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one SAYS. 'Love'…
You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about…
Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try…
No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.
Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an…
No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.

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The world doesn't need another clothing company. But it does need a certain funk. — Andre Benjamin
I already survived one apocalypse, I don't need another. — Michael Rooker
Why do we need another station where everyone has a gun? We already have BET. — Greg Giraldo
The world doesn’t need another opinion, they need another person taking action. So I take action because I see the call and… — will.i.am
You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if [President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela] thinks we’re trying to assassinate… — Pat Robertson
I just don't think pastors should turn their pulpits into public policy platforms. It cheapens the gospel. Our congregation doesn't need another… — Mark Batterson
I think it's just the nature of our game that we're friends out here, although we are competitors, we are friends. And… — Unknown Author
U.S.-China relations doesn't need another lawyer. — Abigail Washburn
I don't think women need another black bag. Everybody has a black bag already, so I thought this season (needs) color. — Carolina Herrera
Sometimes I feel I can't quite master my written and spoken Spanish, because I'm too much a student of English. I would… — Sandra Cisneros
You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it. — Maya Angelou
Pepperidge Farm bread. That's fancy bread. You can tell it's fancy because it's wrapped twice. You open it, and it still isn't… — Mitch Hedberg

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