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We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.
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One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner…
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God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to…
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When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e.,…
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Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want…
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Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz…
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Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one SAYS. 'Love'…
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You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about…
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Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try…
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No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.
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Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an…
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No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.
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Scientia potentia est, sed parva; quia scientia egregia rara est, nec proinde apparens nisi paucissimis, et in paucis rebus. Scientiae enim ea…
— Thomas Hobbes
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Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.
— Horace
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Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo. (The drop excavates the stone, not with force but by falling often.)
— Ovid
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I also would have steered clear of politics. I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high…
— Billy Graham
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Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)!
— Saint Augustine
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Haec ego non multis (scribo), sed tibi: satis enim magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus. I am writing this not to many, but…
— Epicurus
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Te Occidere Possunt Sed Te Edere Non Possunt Nefas Est" ("They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite…
— David Foster Wallace
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Facilis descensus Averno Noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras Hoc opus labor est
— Cassandra Clare
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Patience makes lighter / What sorrow may not heal. ("sed levius fit patientia quidquid corrigere est nefas")
— Horace
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A wise man once sed its beutiness on the inside and outside and that makes your personality pop!
— Joekidia Sims
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My mom and dad always told me that happiness was the key to life.So when I went to school the next day…
— Joekidia Sims
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