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Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.

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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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As someone who has shot in most disciplines, I can tell the House that when one is lying on ones stomach in… — Unknown Author
To survive, you had to steer your course midstream, where the water was deepest and ran fastest, that you had to paddle… — Melanie McGrath
And, in fact, this is the tale that I would love to write: history is such a romantic place, with its jarveys… — Anne Enright
If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there… — Ramana Maharshi
We walk by faith. We don't stay still, drowning in our misery. — Jentezen Franklin
I've never been one to stay still. I was born a nomad, and I still am a nomad and always will be. — Waris Dirie
You thought you had the choice to stay still or move forward, but your didn't. As long as your heart kept pumping… — Ann Brashares
Beauty is and always is. You are absent. Why are you absent? Again your robot mind is the problem. It will not… — Barry Long
Textbook survival says stay still, don't take any chances, wait for rescue. That's a boring TV show. My thing was always, "Listen,… — Bear Grylls
I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to… — Ellen DeGeneres
And talking about dark! You think dark is just one color, but it ain't. There're five or six kinds of black. Some… — Toni Morrison
Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in… — Thomas Stearns Eliot

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