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In short stories there's more permission to be elliptical. You can have image-logic, or it's almost like a poem in that you…
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Any place, then, can become a cemetery. All it takes is your body. It's not fair, I think, and I get this…
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You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.
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I didn’t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats…
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Once you figure out what's best for the story, take out the rest.
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Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just…
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"I'm not going anywhere," she told me that night. But until we are old ladies-a cypress age, a Sawtooth age-I will continue…
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Sometimes it can feel like the whole globe is spinning with irredeemable losses, capricious natural disasters and crimes so outrageously evil they…
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Regret is a pilgrimage back to the place where I was free to choose.
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The girl has a funny way of romanticizing things.
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It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams.
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Self-disciplin e is necessary, but so is playfulness, flexibility, joy. When you stop demanding perfection of yourself, your writing desk will become…
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You cannot put patience and experience into a parenthesis, and, omitting them, bring hope out of tribulation.
— Alexander MacLaren
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We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not a trivial…
— Robert K. Merton
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Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period.
— John Donne
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There's something about a parenthesis in fiction that puts one off, saying, "It's me, moi, jumping in now."
— John L'Heureux
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The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society
— Nicolas Chamfort
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This is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.
— Deepak Chopra
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Perfume is like a parenthesis, a moment of freedom, peace, love and sensuality in between the disturbances of modern living.
— Sonia Rykiel
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The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.
— Thomas Browne
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I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my…
— Gail Devers
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What I want back is what I was Before the bed, before the knife, Before the brooch-pin and the salve Fixed me…
— Sylvia Plath
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since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; wholly to be a…
— E E Cummings
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life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
— E E Cummings
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