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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
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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
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.
began composure easy forge good nervous thinking
That's not a very good start, I'm afraid. This is a big day for me, an important day, one that when I started thinking about doing this and actually making this appearance, I began to get a little nervous about what's actually happening. Just maintaining your composure is not easy for me, but I'm going to forge forward.
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Bill Sharman was coach at that time and I didn't want to intrude, ... But Kermit had to learn to play facing the basket, which he'd never done. So, I began meeting him at the Loyola gym at 7:30 each morning and we'd work on his development. Pete Newell
began brought four frozen immense realised until utterly
When you are brought up as a frozen child, you go on freezing. It wasn't until I had my four sons, who have brought me immense joy, that I began to thaw. That I realised how utterly extraordinary my childhood was. John le Carre
began came fact gotten hair
One thing that came up, that I haven't gotten over yet, was the fact that when I began working on the role, I went and had my hair bleached white. Ray Walston
began believe life since talent
I believe that since my life began / The most I've had is just / A talent to amuse. Noel Coward
began breakfast came coach excited national realize talking win
But when he came out he began to realize what we were talking about, and he had breakfast with Coach Wooden. We told him we were going to win the national championship. He got excited about that.
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But it wasn't until the 1970s that manga dealing with romantic relationships forming between females began to pop up, Rebecca Brown
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China Black Oil Well Services moved a work-over rig on the leasehold and began working today. We hope to have several more wells producing oil in commercial quantities in the next sixty (60) days.
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Only a great genius like the Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell can be mother, wife and novelist without solitude. I couldn't write until my youngest child went to school, and then I began - the first morning - and I've never stopped. Jane Gardam
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Anything we can do to help impart knowledge of our Constitution is important. If we spent a day recognizing, say, presidents or particular people, this certainly is the one thing we share in common - our Constitution. It's the thread that holds us all together. G. H. Hardy
certainly lack pulling respect shows stunt
Pulling a stunt like this (which is certainly not a first) shows a lack of respect for the audience.
certainly difficult touched workers
The salaried workers are certainly going to be touched by this. By how much, it's difficult to say.
certainly chips deciding fall playing style team win
It would certainly help. I think that would go a long way to deciding the team that comes out victorious. I think they probably feel like they can win playing our style and we feel like, if the chips fall right, we can win playing their style.
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The zone hurt us quite a bit. We couldn't get any shots; we couldn't get any dribble penetration. We didn't make any shots and certainly our defense was not up to par. Maurice Cheeks
certainly choosing couple decision easier guys job last position recognized team tough unselfish
They are all very unselfish guys and that certainly will make my job easier (in choosing who plays). While it's a tough decision to make, they have recognized it, and, that position has epitomized the unselfishness on this team the last couple of years. Bill Cowher
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The win is obviously the most important thing right now, ... The record is something I'll certainly think about once this whole thing is over. Alex Rodriguez
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The wood industry would certainly welcome boosted demand, especially since the pricing for wood hasn't been that strong despite a good housing market.
certainly meat poultry virus
The virus is transmitted by live birds. It's not in the poultry meat and it's certainly not in eggs.
envy waste needs
Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need. Regina Brett
envy temples glory
After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave. Mason Cooley
envy gossip criticism
Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. Mark Twain
envy challenges merit
Merit challenges envy. John Dryden
envy criticism bears
The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy. Denis Waitley
poetry poverty instinct
A person born with an instinct for poverty. Elbert Hubbard
poetry pardon burned
For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd. Alexander Pope
poetry literature language
Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors. T. S. Eliot
poetry language states
Poetry is the language of a state of crisis. Stephane Mallarme
poetry
The meaning of poetry has no sureness of direction; is like the sling, it is not under control. Rumi
poetry age
It was at that age that poetry came in search of me. Pablo Neruda
poetry feels anything-is-possible
I feel that anything is possible in a poem. Mark Strand
poetry nouns verbs
Poetry is all nouns and verbs. Marianne Moore
poetry poetic poet
The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic. Franz Grillparzer
since
Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane. Gloria Naylor
since
You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid. Isla Fisher
since worked
My wife and I were in a band and worked together on and off since we were 19 or 20.
since
I don't know about anything since then that is new.
since turned voted
I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18. Chelsea Clinton
since
I haven't surfed since Japannot even one wave. Kelly Slater
since
I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while. Saku Koivu
since year
All I can say is that it's been better every year since I've been here. And I don't know how long it is, but it was here before I got here.
since time
It's been a long time since I've been on top.