Essentials Quote by Lynne Tillman

“Any writer knows that what's left out is as essential, if not more so, than what's there. Unlearning works that way.” quote by Lynne Tillman — Download Open image

“Any writer knows that what's left out is as essential, if not more so, than what's there. Unlearning works that way.”

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There may be an art to conversation, and some are better at it than others, but conversation's virtue lies in randomness and possibility: people, without a plan, could speak a spontaneous, unexpected truth, because revelation rules. Telling words recur in this smart, generous conversation between Stephen Andrews and Gregg Bordowitz: patience, responsibility, feminism, ethics, cosmology, AIDS, gift, freedom, mortality.

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I'd studied English literature and American history, but the English literature, which I thought was going to be helpful to me in an immediate…

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I subject my sentences and the words to a kind of Grand Inquisition.

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Laughing and crying are very similar. Sometimes people go from laughing to crying, or crying to laughing. I remember being at someone's wedding and…

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[Reality] isn't simply the so-called world that you're in. Your reality is a much larger one that takes in all matter of identification and…

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I write about what I'm thinking about. I write about what is bothering me or what is a political, aesthetic, or ethical issue or…

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My friends and I sometimes laugh at each other that there is so much maintenance of a body. I paid no attention when I…

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I'm interested in reality but I'm not interested in realism at all.

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In a practical sense, pain kept me from sitting down as much, so that sometimes I would have to stand to write. Not that…

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I'm bothered, as a reader, when I feel the writer is filling in too much. Again, whether it's nonfiction or fiction, I think writers…

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It wasn't that I wanted to be an artist. But when I took my first drawing class with the painter Doug Ohlson, I could…

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I'm interested in reality but I'm not interested in realism at all. I'm interested in the ways that I think people want to relate.

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Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions… Likewise in your pleasures, ask yourself what such and such an amusement leads to, as it is essential to have an objective in everything you do. Any pastime that contributes nothing to bodily strength or to mental alertness is a totally ridiculous,…

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Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you're just a middleman.

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A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

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The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth.

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The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.

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Intellectual methods-study and reason-are essential to our progress toward eternal life, but they are not sufficient. They can prepare the way. They can get the mind ready to receive the Spirit. But what the scriptures call conversion-the change of mind and heart that gives us the direction and strength to move resolutely toward eternal life-comes only by the witness and…

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