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american-novelist fiction truth
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
american-novelist art asking questions science source
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 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
american-novelist education knowledge matter private school
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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The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions. Ellen Glasgow
difference great people product
People underestimate the difference between a great product and just a product.
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People talk about the difference between working on stage and working on film. I think you could say that there are as many differences between working on low budget films and working on big budget films. You really are doing the same thing, but at the same time you're doing something vastly different as well. Joel Edgerton
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After all the brinkmanship this is good news. It's good news because it will make a real difference to some of the world's poorest people.
difference genetic material percent
We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us. Barry Schuler
differences mind together
Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change. Barbara Mikulski
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This is our last chance to make a difference. If you're like me, you don't want to have to ask yourself on the day after the election, what else could I have done? Brad Pitt
differences impact choices
Above all we must realize that each of us makes a difference with our life. Each of us impacts the world around us every single day. We have a choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place - or not to bother Jane Goodall
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When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there is very little difference the world over. James Weldon Johnson
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Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do. C. S. Lewis
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A woman with this notoriety, with this type of offense charged, would be at risk ... I have grave, grave concerns.
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Prophets were twice stoned - first in anger; then, after their death, with a handsome slab in the graveyard Christopher Morley
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Even if I go to my grave I will wake up and come and vote. One of the manifestations of pride (in your country) is to vote for your country, and I am very happy for it. Nelson Mandela
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the timetable for the ... grave situation we're in today.
graves feels
To say what you feel is to dig your own grave. Sinead O'Connor
grave sun
I think Scott will go to his grave as a Sun employee.
grave itself met people today
Today is like a reunion, ... I've met a lot of people at the grave itself through the years. Donald Davis
graveyard people trying whose
If you're trying to be a successful writer, and you go into a second-hand bookshop, it's the graveyard of people whose books haven't been wanted. Mark Haddon
grave healthy relish
I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave Sydney Smith
ruts ends graves
A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out. Laurence J. Peter