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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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Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead.
— Erma Bombeck
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The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.
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I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared…
— Ursula Andress
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A few years ago I was at a party and this guy threw me over his shoulder, ran across the street, put…
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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time.…
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One time in spring training, we had the hit-and-run on, and Carl Erskine threw me a curve and I struck out into…
— Whitey Herzog
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People that were in my life for a long time turned sinister and tried to control me, and all kinds of weird…
— Lisa Marie Presley
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My first day on the set of 'John Adams', I was just supposed to fly to Virginia for a costume fitting. But…
— Mamie Gummer
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They threw me off the haytruck about noon.
— James M. Cain
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I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me…
— Yann Martel
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Fine - I said huffily. - But I hope I'm at least allowed to fly around the corridors during lunch hour. Gabriel…
— Alexandra Adornetto
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One down," Beckendorf said. "About five thousand to go." He tossed me a jar of thick green liquid—Greek fire, one of the…
— Rick Riordan
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