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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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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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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere…
— Charles Baudelaire
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The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would be untrue…
— Michael Bloomberg
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I am here before you tonight to dedicate this administration to bringing a new renaissance of neighborhood life and community spirit, a…
— Jane Byrne
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Diversity gives our city a competitive edge.
— Thomas Menino
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While [the Arians], like men sprung from a dunghill, truly "spoke from the earth" [Jn. 3:31], the bishops [of Nicea], not having…
— Athanasius of Alexandria
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Why do we insist on building the largest and most impressive structures in our city when people on the other side of…
— K.P. Yohannan
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Thank you Rob for the honor you have brought to our city with this oustanding composition.
— Rocky Anderson
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I was on the San Diego school board for 4 years, where I watched children successfully matriculate into elementary schools from Head…
— Bob Filner
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I am working hard to ensure that working families can continue to afford to live in our city.
— Thomas Menino
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Isn't it amazing that the Germans call their city halls 'rat houses'? That's what we should call our city halls!
— Drew Carey
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As Mayor of San Francisco, I will work hard to ensure that, in the event of natural or man-made disasters, San Franciscans…
— Gavin Newsom
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