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The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing comes in. Because the traffic jams and crowded aisles…

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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 truth is that stress doesn't come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It… — Andrew Bernstein
There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile. — Zig Ziglar
We humans are basically content with a two-dimensional world, which is what we-ve always occupied. We travel mostly on the ground, have… — Paul MacCready
Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes. — Eileen Wilks
The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing comes in. Because the traffic jams… — David Foster Wallace
On Max Yasgur’s six hundred acres, everyone dropped their defenses and became a huge extended family. Joining together, getting into the music… — Michael Lang
The car was invented as a convenient place to sit out traffic jams — Evan Esar
There are never any traffic jams on the extra mile. — Brian Tracy
If our goal is to be tolerant of people who are different than we are, then we really are aiming quite low.… — Glennon Melton
[Cycling] is easily the quickest way around central London, faster than bus, Tube or taxi. You can predict precisely how long every… — Jeremy Paxman
People nowadays like to be together not in the old-fashioned way of, say, mingling on the piazza of an Italian Renaissance city,… — J. G. Ballard
I find it ironic how New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg is so focused on such small issues as drink sizes, while… — Mark Skousen

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