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People with good intentions never give up!
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Some people do wait their whole lives for something, and it's only when that thing arrives that they find out that they've…
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With preference came point of view; with point of view, personality; with personality, uniqueness; with uniqueness, grief.
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As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral.
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Even if my marriage is falling apart and my children are unhappy, there is still a part of me that says, 'God,…
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Giving his lecture for the third time freed Dr. Lionel Gift from paying much attention to it. He had a naturally expressive…
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One of the things that Ivar knew about Mrs. Walker was that she would only tell him what she knew if he…
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Many said that now there was no hope of salvation, for a man might do anything and be in the wrong. There…
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After a long day, folk rest at night. After a long summer, folk play games and sit about in the winter. After…
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The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the other…
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When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend and…
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I say, when your hair turns gray and your children think they know who you are, do the thing that shakes up…
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There are twenty-four characters in this book named Max. Let there be an end to this silly business of authors never giving…
— Max Shulman
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I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.
— Jay McInerney
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Most people like a little sex in their novels.
— John Sandford
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In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not…
— Alan Lightman
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There are these boutique writers out there who think if they are not writing their novels sitting at a bistro with their…
— Rick Bragg
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Novelists of a conservative or more purely aesthetic bent hold up better on the surface, but their novels go in and out…
— Jane Smiley
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Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy…
— Stephen Fry
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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader's…
— Alan Bennett
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