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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
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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
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He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers. Greg Vaughn
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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
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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
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I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then.
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Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense. J. K. Rowling
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For now, I only wish to make a simple acknowledgement of the woman who held the power just before me. Of all of us who touched it, I feel she was the most worthy. Brandon Sanderson
simple simplicity
The more simple we are, the more complete we become. Auguste Rodin
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The Q I loathe and despise, the Q every single writer I know loathes and despises, is this one: 'Where,' the reader asks, 'do you get your ideas?' It's a simple question, and my usual response is a kind of helpless, 'I don't know.' Ayelet Waldman
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The better organized you are in the simple things, the more spontaneous and free you can be in the ore important things. Brian Tracy
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Putting on a new pair of glasses or sunglasses is a simple way to completely transform your look - just like a new hairstyle. Brad Goreski
simple names people
I tried to make it a simple as possible for people so they could pronounce my name. Jamie Farr
simple world ignored
The world’s not so simple anymore, I guess it never was. We ignored it, now we can’t. Branch Rickey
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If there was a simple ethic for the band, it was that we want to be able to do whatever we want to do. Billy Corgan
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The idea of Socialism is at once grandiose and simple. . .We may say, in fact, that it is one of the most ambitious creations of the human spirit, . . .so magnificent, so daring, that it has rightly aroused the greatest admiration. If we wish to save the world from barbarism we have to refute Socialism, but we cannot thrust it carelessly aside. Ludwig von Mises