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Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be…
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The lines we draw that make us who we are are potent by virtue of being non-negotiable, and even, at some level,…
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Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?
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Some strangers become more important to you than family, maybe because you're not expected to love them. You can leave them whenever…
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Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for…
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A writer turns his life into material, and if you’re in his life, he uses yours, too.
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In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth..
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At the beginning of a novel, a writer needs confidence, but after that what's required is persistence. These traits sound similar. They…
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Spirit was a by-product of activity, like the reflection from a spinning fan blade, and our souls in the end did not…
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Most writers' view of the New West is either phony - obsessed with the same tired mythology - or it's obsessed with…
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The market is the only critic that matters.
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The best critic needn't be right, just interesting.
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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
— William Blake
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If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?
— Taylor Caldwell
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For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why?…
— Albert Camus
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Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck - who keeps right on…
— Robert Collier
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Poverty arises and persists where corruption is endemic and enterprise is stifled, where basic fairness provided by the rule of law is…
— Colin Powell
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Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure…
— Orison Swett Marden
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Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans studying the…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate -healthy virile hate- for what the German personifies and…
— Elie Wiesel
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The sciences have sworn among themselves an inviolable partnership; it is almost impossible to separate them, for they would rather suffer than…
— Marin Mersenne
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