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american-novelist fiction truth
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense. Leo Rosten
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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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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
american-novelist fact fiction interest party people press
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 minutes supposed ten
She was supposed to be back in ten minutes and when she wasn't back in 45 minutes, we began to worry.
began beginning massive midway run score stuck third
Right before halftime, they stuck it to us and began to score at will. We went on a massive run beginning midway through the third period.
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
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Night tennis began at the United States Open in 1975 with certain stars trying to beg out and certain patrons trying to dump unwanted tickets on scalpers. George Vecsey
began borders print science stories
Only when my 'Punktown'-based stories began seeing print did I demonstrate my proclivity for blurring the borders between horror, science fiction, and other genres.
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One of them began resisting, so I approached the deputy, identifying myself, and began to help. Chatman and I wrestled the guy to the ground and found he was carrying a loaded .38.
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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 hard importance opposed prepare single suppose
Is it a heightened sense of importance because we're 1-4 as opposed to 4-1? I suppose so. But having said that, we prepare hard for every single game. Certainly we'll prepare very, very hard for this one. Skip Prosser
certainly focus good hard swimming
I've been swimming as hard as I can. Hopefully, this is going to be a good meet. It is certainly been the focus of my season.
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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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It would certainly help, from the standpoint of agriculture, to start getting more frequent rain. ... The pattern for the next week or two doesn't lend itself to having significant precipitation.
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It would certainly be rare, but considering the circumstances it's not surprising. It's well known the city is having severe fiscal difficulties.
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I've never had any issues with Ben. I certainly have talked to him sometimes about choices and consequences, the same thing you do with any other player. But I have never had any problems with him in terms of our communications and what his responses are, and that's all I can ask. Bill Cowher
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
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Abyss-mongering makes professors and poets feel daring.
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
All I've ever done since I was 17 is tell stories. You know, I'm a storyteller. And that's what I'm going to keep on doing, especially now, kind of embracing and making sure that we tell immigration. Jose Antonio Vargas