"All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices……" — Steve Almond
"All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction."
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26 Quotes by Steve Almond
Steve Almond has 26 quotes on this site.
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Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.
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Art arises from loss. I wish this weren't the case. I wish that every time I met a new woman…
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Most forms of rage, after all, are only sloppy cloaks for grief.
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It is certainly true that cooking is therapeutic, creative and all those other faintly creepy self-helpish words. I would love…
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The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this…
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All language is an aspiration to music.
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There's something incredibly liberating about a holiday that encourages children to take candy from strangers
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To look at the work of your peers, and learn how to explain with kindness and precision, the nature of…
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Why are people so fascinated by how to eat Valomilks?’ She said, ‘Well, Dad, they’re round and they’re messy. But…
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Our lazy embrace of Stewart and Colbert is a testament to our own impoverished comic standards. We have come to…
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We are all, in the private kingdom of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend. Someone…
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A good teacher, after all, wields the authority of a parent with none of the psychological baggage. The best of…
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More Accomplices Quotes
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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
— Saul Bellow
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We are always making God our accomplice so that we may legalize our own inequities.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who prepare for it, and…
— Hermann Hesse
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Dining out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse. We eat, drink, and talk a little too…
— Cyril Connolly
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To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I have never seen more Senators express discontent with their jobs....I think the major cause is that, deep down in…
— John C. Danforth
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We are standing face to face with the barbarians. The enemy is no longer outside but inside the City, and…
— Guillaume Faye
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I'm an accomplice to helping women get what they want.
— John Galliano
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I was a sinner. I knew that without a doubt. But I was not alone. And the night was the…
— William Kent Krueger
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Stolen kisses require an accomplice.
— Texas Bix Bender
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The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices.…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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When struck on one cheek to turn the other, is really joining a conspiracy to secure the triumph of brutality.…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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