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...and suddenly it occurred to him that the birds, whose twitters and repeated songs sounded so pretty and affirming of nature and the coming day,…

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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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The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact… — Robert Musil
As I was walking in the fields, the thought came over me with almost overwhelming power, that every one of my flock… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought came too late: a man… — Laurence Housman
...with a rush of feeling he felt that this must be happiness. As soon as the thought came to him, he fought… — John McGahern
I'll burn myself, or I'll cut myself. For a burn or a cut might be shown, might be nursed, might scar or… — Sarah Waters
Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, Flushing his brow. — John Keats
Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known. The thought came to me that perhaps it… — Dodie Smith
...and suddenly it occurred to him that the birds, whose twitters and repeated songs sounded so pretty and affirming of nature and… — David Foster Wallace
Then I saw her smile so close to my eye that there was nothing to see but the smile and the thought… — Ali Smith
I wonder how much of the rest of his clothes I could convince him to take off, then wonder where that thought… — Claudia Gray
The thought came over me that never would one full and absolute moment, containing all the others, justify my life, that all… — Jorge Luis Borges

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