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We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.
One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner…
God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to…
When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e.,…
Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want…
Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz…
Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one SAYS. 'Love'…
You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about…
Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try…
No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.
Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an…
No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.

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In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try… — David Foster Wallace
There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the… — Charles Dickens
There is more healing joy in five minutes of true worship than in five nights of revelry. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity. — John Milton
The realization of our soul has its moral and its spiritual side. The moral side represents training of unselfishness, control of desire;… — Rabindranath Tagore
The baseball establishment is permissive about revelry. — Curt Flood
Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to… — Desiderius Erasmus
Both looked back then on the wild revelry...and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In the depths of every heart there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and the revelry above… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
My songs are all about celebrating poignant music. While some of them focus on fun and revelry, they are fortunately backed by… — Kailash Kher

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