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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense. Leo Rosten
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You have to have that organizational principle behind the song. Tom Verlaine
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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge. Thomas Berger
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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 genre it falls under is only of interest later.
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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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What comes easiest for me is dialogue. Sometimes when my characters are speaking to me, I have to slow them down so that I'm not simply taking dictation.
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Well, Terry and I broke up 10 years ago. So the healing that was going to happen, happened. So mostly this was a stroll down memory lane. Armistead Maupin
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Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college. Lillian Smith
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As a parish priest you're formed much by the people you serve and live with. David Reed
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Back in the day, people used to have more patience for the long form and for storytelling, Richard Lewis
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Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs Thomas Kyd
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The thought was that it was better to withdraw the proposal rather than risk a formal veto at this stage, Paul Richards
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You've heard our formula many times. You ... need superior special units, relentless defense, mistake-free and opportunistic offense. Jim Tressel
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During conversion, the newly formed nucleus is not always immediately in the ground state, but is at times in one of the possible activated states. Walther Bothe
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While these forms of protection have often been imposed under the label of promoting so-called 'fair trade,' oftentimes they are just simple guises for inhibiting competition. Alan Greenspan
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We've had people who were yoga instructors. ... We have a former marine, and we have everything in between, Seth Godin
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We are still in the preliminary phases of the general outlook of the torch relay but the route is not yet defined. The practical circumstances of the torch relay and the whole format is still under discussion. Jacques Rogge