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Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see…
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The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
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We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.
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Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing.
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You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.
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We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate…
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Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the…
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Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them…
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I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,…
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I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a realist writer,…
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I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come…
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Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by…
— Dave Barry
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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
— Bernard Baruch
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does…
— Saint Basil
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He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.
— Walter Benjamin
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What is a philosophy? It Is an answer satisfactory to the reason to all the great problems of life. That is what…
— Annie Besant
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
— Otto von Bismarck
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Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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When it comes to physicians there is a common thread that is a major barrier to solving our concerns. We are divided.…
— Brian Day
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One not only drinks the wine, one smells it, observes it, tastes it, sips it and-one talks about it.
— Edward VII
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Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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A champion plays the game; a spectator observes, criticizes and never really gets to live. A champion knows what he or she…
— Bruce Jenner
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Everyone who observes himself doubting observes a truth, and about that which he observes he is certain; therefore he is certain about…
— Saint Augustine
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