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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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If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rather…
— Keith Green
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My overcoat is worn out my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in…
— William Tyndale
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What good is sitting alone in your room? Come hear the music play; Life is a cabaret, old chum, Come to the…
— Fred Ebb
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Friends of mine said later that they had been riveted by a postgame television close-up of Wade Boggs, sitting alone in the…
— Roger Angell
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Sitting alone, listening to the sound of your breath, the beating of your heart is a reminder that you are sacred and…
— Iyanla Vanzant
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While He [the Lord Jesus] was sitting alone by the well, 'There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water' (John 4:7).…
— Gregory Palamas
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I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script.
— Conrad Hall
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If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house,…
— Thurgood Marshall
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When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about…
— Joyce Meyer
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I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me…
— Marilyn Monroe
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You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a…
— Dr. Seuss
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I became educated to the fact that the greatest pain does not come zooming down from a distant planet, but from the…
— Philip K. Dick
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