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Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'No, you lied to…
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Later I would come to believe that erotic ties were all a spell, a temporary psychosis, even a kind of violence, or…
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All the way out I listen to the car AM radio, bad lyrics of trailer park love, gin and tonic love, strobe…
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Basically, I realized I was living in that awful stage of life between twenty-six to and thirty-seven known as stupidity. It's when…
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For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one…
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There seemed nothing so true as a yellow tree.
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Better to think of writing, of what one does, as an activity, rather than an identity to keep the calling a verb…
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The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father.…
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The detachment of the artist is kind of creepy. It's kind of rude, and yet really it's where art comes from. It's…
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Love is art, not truth. It’s like painting scenery.
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If one loves stories, then one would naturally love the story of the story. Or the story behind the story, pick your…
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To write a short story, you have to be able to stay up all night.
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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
— Andre Gide
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Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'No, you lied to…
— Lorrie Moore
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At eighty-two, I feel like a twenty-year-old, but, unfortunately, there's never one around.
— Milton Berle
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Carmelia Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange-blossom water and was strewing rosemary leaves on Pilar Ternera's bed when the…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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She's one of the few people able to look beyond the lines on my face to see the twenty-year-old who lives inside.
— Kate Morton
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This twenty-year-old boy was distinguished from childhood by strange qualities, a dreamer and an eccentric. A girl fell in love with him,…
— Mikhail Bulgakov
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Taking Big Bird away from our five year olds, lunch money away from our ten year olds, job training programs away from…
— John Murray
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On the second day God created the monkey. God said, Entertain people, do monkey tricks and make them laugh. I'll give you…
— Sadie
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And I wanted to do it nice this time. I put on a tie and I shined my shoes, but nobody wants…
— The Social Network
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Twenty-year-old girl from her parents says: good or bad for me very well when I'm also not interfere in the matter! Thatgirl…
— Mak_786
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