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Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate…
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A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly,…
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If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others.…
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Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few…
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them…
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the…
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If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from…
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My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour…
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Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way…
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When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human,…
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It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from everywhere. It's…
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Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.…
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Delight in splendor is no more than happiness with little for both and have their appeal.
— Euripides
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I am a pationate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images, it comes closest to the truth ... the snapshooter['s]…
— Lisette Model
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The snapshooter’s pictures have an apparent disorder and imperfection, which is exactly their appeal and their style. The picture isn’t straight. It…
— Lisette Model
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I mean, I do love clever and witty, but I think that the 'Three Stooges' were geniuses. They'd have to be for…
— Paula Poundstone
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In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their…
— Hari Kunzru
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The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified…
— Henry A. Wallace
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It goes in streaks. But some things never go out of fashion.' Hunger artists, fat folks, giants, and dog acts come and…
— Katherine Dunn
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In a healthy individual, a broken bone that has healed properly is strongest where it was once broken. You have not lost…
— Yann Martel
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The readings are at once instant in their appeal, and lingering in their impact.
— Andrew Motion
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