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“Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks.”

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“But I shot the dog myself. I took him into the barn holding on to his collar. He knew something bad was going to…

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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.

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When writing about historical characters I try to be as accurate as possible, and in particular not to misrepresent the view they held. With…

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That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement…

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Murder is only killing in the wrong place.

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The sky darkened, the air grew colder, but he didn't mind. It didn't occur to him to move. This was the right place. This…

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'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a…

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I don't think it's possible to c-call yourself a C-Christian and... and j-just leave out the awkward bits.' -Wilfred Owen

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The way I see it, when you put the uniform on, in effect you sign a contract. And you don't back out of a…

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“Half the world's work's done by hopeless neurotics.”

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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars,

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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.

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When the first Superman movie came out I was frequently asked "What is a hero?" ...My answer was that a hero is someone who…

Christopher Reeve

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The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is…

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Bruce Katz is a spectacular talent! He's a brilliant composer and arranger who uses uncommon and unique musical intelligence to redefine jazz and blues…

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But when you have to deal with notes, and to be able to make a full definition of what a sound is - if…

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The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself]…

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Before I had kids, I thought you should never lie to a kid. But now I've had them, I realize you almost lie to…

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my definition of the ideal man is 'that particular man with whom a woman happens to be in love at that particular time.

Clare Boothe Luce

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He emphasised basic truths: you are not dying yet, you have to live your life until you are. Underpinning them was the belief that…

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My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.'

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Was man made stupid to see his own stupidity? Is God by definition indifferent, beyond us all? Is the eternal truth man's fighting soul…

Richard Eberhart

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Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to…

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed,…

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