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american-novelist fiction truth
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense. Leo Rosten
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What happened was that after I wrote The Ice Storm I had a period where I was blocked for a little bit, before I wrote Purple America. Rick Moody
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What does it feel like to be a parent? What does it feel like to be a child? And that's what stories do. They bring you there. They offer a dramatic explanation, which is always different from an expository explanation. Richard Russo
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On the one hand, shopping is dependable: You can do it alone, if you lose your heart to something that is wrong for you, you can return it; it's instant gratification and yet something you buy may well last for years. Judith Krantz
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Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that. Joe Wilson
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He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers. Greg Vaughn
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Because of my father's dislocated life, I knew intuitively that I wanted to have as few jobs as possible by the time I was married. John Hawkes
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But if all these things were the bits of tinsel and straw I made my nest out of, the way I felt while I worked was strangely different. Edmund White
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I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then.
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We use it at the border at Johnstown and in the St. Lawrence area. And we use it for public demonstrations. There's only one like this in the district.
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Borders all over the world are coming down, and as they come down opportunities spring up, ... Companies reach further to compete with their products and services, and when they want to open shop, wherever they want to open shop, they want those communications services to support their people and their products, and we've got to be there.
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At some point you know they are going to go on a run and she's going to be in the middle of it. She plays with extreme confidence that borders on arrogance, but doesn't quite cross over that line. The whole team does. They know what they can do.
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We cannot hermetically seal 7,000 miles of land borders and keep out 100 percent of illegal crossers, ... But we can create such a high likelihood of interdiction that it will have a strong and unequivocal deterrent effect on those who wish to cross illegally. Michael Chertoff
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China has existed within very roughly its present borders for over two millennia and for virtually the whole of that period saw itself as a 'civilisation state.' It was only when it was too weak to resist the western powers in the early 20th century that it finally acquiesced in an arrangement that was alien to it. Martin Jacques
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My gut feeling is he's more focused on the political than the economic agenda. He stresses the goal of resolving Israel's borders by 2010 a lot more than putting up a fight to control spending and pay off debt. Jonathan Katz
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If the Big One hit, we could potentially be talking about Ventura to the border being impacted, in terms of major freeways.
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Once a friend, always a friend. Why should borders stop that? Erin Hunter
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Chicago seems to be for many reasons the political capital of immigration. There may be more immigrants in California or the border states, but Chicago is the place where lots of ideas came together.
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So the question is who else is going to know. We are concerned about the invasion of privacy related to corporate advertisers knowing your position.
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School administrators are so concerned about discipline in school that they neglect the fundamental rights of students. Not only do students have a constitutional right to express themselves in the school so long as they're not disrupting the educational process, but schools ought to be encouraging students to express themselves.
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This is not a 'ripping off the Band-Aid' kind of situation, where you know how much the pain will be and that you'll be fine afterwards. We don't know how well the economy has healed. The Fed remains very concerned ... that they might overshoot and give the economy such a shock they'll have to cut rates again.
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At present, I am not concerned with results. God's will ought to be our aim, and I am quite contented that His designs should be accomplished and not mine. Robert E. Lee
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We are very concerned obviously with developments in Haiti. Stockwell Day
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We were concerned that he seemed to be listening more to them (developers) then his constituents and us. He did say Mountain Springs was a great place to put a subdivision.
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We were concerned something might be going on in Italy.
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We were concerned especially with homecoming week and everything. Defensively, we played a great game.
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We're looking at several things. We're concerned with the retaining wall, its stability from a water quality perspective, and their drainage controls, which are insufficient.
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What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth. Azar Nafisi
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Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies.
reality thinking people
You see 'awesome' and I see 'lost.' It's very easy to lose touch with reality when you've got that many people thinking you are more than you really are. Brian Bosworth
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Not only has President Bush broken his word on funding, he has not put in the effort required to turn this excellent idea into a lifesaving reality. Jamie Drummond
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A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake. Carl Sandburg
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Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole... Alain de Botton
reality causes indifference
In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe. Al Goldstein
reality people pages
It's the same reason why someone has a Web page or why people feel comfortable going on reality TV. Charlene Li
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In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit him or her to sit in easy judgment and feel superior at watching familiar strangers make fools of themselves. Reality TV looks in only one direction: down. James Wolcott