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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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It is impossible for someone to dispel his fears about the most important matters if he doesn't know the nature of the…
— Epicurus
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Everybody should espouse three or four harmless crank theories for the pure pleasure of having something harmless to be cranky about. And…
— Alexei Panshin
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I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.
— Nancy Mitford
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I first knew Laurie Lewis by her considerable reputation as a fiddle player and a writer of songs. When an opportunity came…
— Linda Ronstadt
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Do not let a day go by without taking some time for yourself - some time you spend in pure pleasure, as…
— Napoleon Hill
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The heart does not derive pure pleasure from what is impermanent.
— Said Nursi
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The more we have given to ourselves, the more we have to give to others. When we find that place within ourselves…
— Shakti Gawain
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Simplicity brings back the joys of Paradise. Not that we have pure pleasure without a moment's suffering, but when we are surrendered…
— Francois Fenelon
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I have consciously sought after those things which make for value, order, richness, spirit and wonder, even though I am often unable…
— Luci Swindoll
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What a pleasure to have children in Heaven and to watch them grow and develop without the Devil and all his imps…
— David Berg
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Heaven is the perfect place to raise children. Everything will be just the way it was intended to be in the beginning,…
— David Berg
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Shalvis makes me laugh, makes me cry, makes me sigh with pure pleasure.
— Susan Andersen
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