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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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The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where…
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Sure, I've done movies in which I was embarrassed by my performance, or might not have cared for a co-star. Then I'd…
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I had the evidence that a crash did happen here....Give this information to the young people of the world and this country....They…
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The statement "I am in pain" may be one piece of evidence for the conclusion that the speaker is in pain, but…
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Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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You can call me a fat, balding, talentless old queen who can't sing, but you can't tell lies about me.
— Elton John
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Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are…
— Diogenes
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Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.
— Paul Auster
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If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out - either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or…
— David Ogilvy
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In general, generalization is to lie, to tell lies.
— Unknown Author
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Bear in mind, my children, that only cowards and those who are weak commit sin and tell lies. The brave are always…
— Swami Vivekananda
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People seldom realize that they tell lies with their lips and truths with their eyes all the time.
— Tahereh Mafi
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