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american-novelist fiction truth
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense. Leo Rosten
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 buy instant last lose return wrong
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
american-novelist children fathers hearts turn
He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers. Greg Vaughn
american-novelist few jobs knew possible time
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
american-novelist bits felt nest strangely straw worked
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
american-novelist life moment truly
I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then.
education
collaborative education is a better way to learn.
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Special education kids are always going to struggle with that accountability piece because special education kids are in the program because they have learning disabilities,
educational world stones
Don't let failure deter you; use it as a stepping-stone and an educational experience towards making your mark on the world. Ben Parr
educational holiday world
Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love. Barbara Jordan
educational keys political
Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.
education children book
At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying. Benito Mussolini
education learning light
A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning. Benjamin Disraeli
education teacher motivation
There is no education like adversity.
education citizenship should
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship. Calvin Coolidge
knowledge neurosis use
The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis. Arthur Adamov
knowledge technology practice
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. Anton Chekhov
knowledge library way
A scholar is just a library's way of making another library. Daniel Dennett
knowledge learning roots
Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way. Confucius
knowledge learning pissed-off
If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven't figured it out yet. Tom Peters
knowledge learning tree
The leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells, 'Wrong jungle!' ... Busy, efficient producers and managers often respond ... 'Shut up! We're making progress!' Stephen Covey
knowledge years knows
We won't know for a few years. Stephen Hawking
knowledge thinking years
[Question: What do you think was the most important physics idea to emerge this year?] We won't know for a few years.
knowledge men poetry
Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science. Sigmund Freud