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The morning had dawned clear and cold, with a crispness that hinted at the end of summer.
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She might have wept then, had not the sky begun to do it for her.
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The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than real ...…
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I hate outlines. I have a broad sense of where the story is going; I know the end, I know the end…
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I get up every day and work in the morning. I have my coffee and get to work. On good days I…
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I don't like the strictly objective viewpoint [in which all of the characters' actions are described in the third person, but we…
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In order to get inside their skin, I have to identify with them. That includes even the ones who are complete bastards,…
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All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. Emotion is really what fiction is all about. That's not…
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I'm a strong believer in telling stories through a limited but very tight third person point of view. I have used other…
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From where I sit, battles are hard. I've written my share. Sometimes I employ the private's viewpoint, very up close and personal,…
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Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution that is…
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We're setting up mechanisms where we can kill human beings with drones and missiles where you're sitting at a console and pressing…
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Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.
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When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble…
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Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is…
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I'm drawn to provocative characters that find themselves in extreme situations. And I think I'm drawn to that consistently.
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The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
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I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a…
— David Bowie
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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
— Winston Churchill
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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
— Woody Allen
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I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed…
— Dorothy Allison
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There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the…
— Theodor Adorno
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Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose…
— William O. Douglas
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