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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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Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a…
— Pablo Casals
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It takes courage for people to listen to their own goodness and act on it.
— Pablo Casals
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What will it cost [a person] to be a true Christian? It will cost him his self-righteousn ess. He must cast away…
— J C Ryle
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Let us watch against pride in every shape-pride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride of our own goodness.
— J C Ryle
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As the world attracts us with its appearance, and abundance and variety, it is not easy to turn away from it unless…
— Pope Leo I
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Let us watch against pride in every shape - pride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride of our own goodness. Nothing is…
— J C Ryle
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Wouldn't it be incredible if everyone could be purged, somehow, of the projected not-them badness that they internalized and perhaps have acted…
— Eve Ensler
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If you're avoiding sin and living morally so that God will have to bless you and save you, then you may be…
— Timothy Keller
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I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore…
— Anne Hathaway
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
— Michel de Montaigne
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If I had a friend and loved him because of the benefits which this brought me and because of getting my own…
— Meister Eckhart
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So will I turn her virtue into pitch, And out of her own goodness make the net That shall enmesh them all.
— William Shakespeare
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