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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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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.
— Stanley Baldwin
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Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
— Thornton Wilder
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She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer, made her confident way towards…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the…
— H. L. Mencken
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The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Nothing is more tedious than the dreaming platitude.
— Karl Marx
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Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss…
— Mark Doty
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Without a rigorous, self-critical discourse, one risks lapsing into pious platitudes and unexamined generalizations.
— Stephen Batchelor
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Platitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms.
— Edward Abbey
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It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it was on your side…
— John Brunner
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Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude-but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of…
— David Foster Wallace
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Because they don't teach the truth about the world, schools have to rely on beating students over the head with propaganda about…
— Noam Chomsky
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