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american-novelist fiction truth
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense. Leo Rosten
american-novelist
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
american-novelist blocked happened ice period purple storm wrote
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
american-novelist dramatic offer stories
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
american-novelist characters easiest simply speaking
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.
american-novelist broke healing memory mostly stroll terry
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
american-novelist difference grave rut
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions. Ellen Glasgow
fighting fights-and-fighting retailers
The wholesalers and the retailers are fighting us very hard.
fighting people might
A fight can express things people might not be able to say with words. Brandon Lee
fighting delicate-life needs
And is an ending always bad? it asked. Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?"There is no need to hasten that end," Vin said. "No reason to force it."All things are subject to their own nature, Vin, Ruin said, seeming to flow around her. She could feel its touch upon her - wet and delicate, like mist. You cannot blame me for being what I am. Without me, nothing would end. Nothing could end. And therefore, nothing could grow. I am life. Would you fight life itself? Brandon Sanderson
fighting style stubborn
When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on. Boris Spassky
fighting thinking community
I think it is vital to fight to do something you want to do despite not gaining your community's or your friends' approval. Archie Panjabi
fighting people pace
There is a kind of expressed love which is easy to subvert. When a figure is loved for their deeds, their conquests, their heroism, their goodness, their love of the people, these are easy enough to destroy... But there is a kind of love which is felt for apparently no reason... A love, inspired, it seems, by the gods, which it is impossible to fight, distort, destroy, or weaken. In fact, the attempts to destroy such loves only strengthen them. And to do nothing allows them to continue to grow at their natural pace, inexoribly, till this love becomes a wide and silent adoration. Ben Okri
fighting men battle
A man's greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.
fighting numbers mind
For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind. Ayn Rand
fighting pride men
Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is man: for his sovereign rational mind. Fight with the radiant certainty and the absolute rectitude of knowing that yours is the Morality of Life and that yours is the battle for any achievement, any value, any grandeur, any goodness, any joy that has ever existed on this earth
fine flashy girl
The thing about Fran Fine is she'll always be the flashy girl from Flushing. Fran Drescher
fine high life man reverence rise sacred signs surest sworn
Reverence is one of the signs of strength, irreverence one of the surest indications of weakness. No man will rise high who jeers at sacred things. The fine loyalties of life must be reverenced or they will be fore sworn in the day of trial.
fine movies process
That's fine with me. I like the process of making movies. John Dahl
fine leave plan
That's not the plan right now. The plan right now is to leave it like it is. I'll be fine with a little rest. Champ Bailey
fine form origin-of-species
Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms. Charles Darwin
fine lesson line winning
There's a fine line between winning and losing. It's a lesson we've learned. Jon Gruden
fine innings quick trying
For my first start, just to get through the innings was fine with me. All I'm trying to do is get outs. I just try to get through every inning as quick as I can.
fine good likes spirit team
Good team spirit is a fine thing to have and I'm someone who likes a harmonious atmosphere,
finesse good needs
He's still getting back to where he needs to be. He needs to feel good about his command, because Moose is more about finesse than power. Joe Torre
worth
I've never done anything like it, ... It's more than worth it. Corey Pavin
worth
It was well worth the wait. (Being a senior) made it all the better.
worth
I'm worth $300 million, and I'm 34 years old,
worth-living
A day lived without doing something good for others is a day not worth living. Mother Teresa
worth
All the frustration, it's been worth the wait. It's a generation-long wait. I mean, that's a long wait.
worth
It probably did about $25,000 worth of damage.