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We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.
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One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner…
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God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to…
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When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e.,…
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Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want…
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Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz…
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Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one SAYS. 'Love'…
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You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about…
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Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try…
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No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.
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Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an…
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No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.
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When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e.,…
— David Foster Wallace
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It takes resolution to go forth from the ease and beautiful simplicity of a well-formed hypothesis and struggle with amorphous facts.
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Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
— Democritus
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There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us…
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Selenite occurs in abundance in well formed clear crystals of several inches in length.
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Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take…
— John B. Watson
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By the time the child can draw more that scribble, by the age of four or five years, an already well-formed body…
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A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and…
— Frederick W. Smith
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One needs only to study a certain positioning of the hand in relation to the keys to obtain with ease the most…
— Frederic Chopin
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You are fiercely heterosexual and well-formed, and it's no one's business that you've shrunk your parents and keep them in a terranium,…
— Mark Leyner
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Not like this vision before us, who was shaking water out of his slightly overlong reddish-brown hair as he leaned over to…
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