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american-novelist fiction truth
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense. Leo Rosten
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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
blond glamour hollywood perfect return vote
I vote for a return to her blond (hair). She should go all glamour because she's the perfect Hollywood starlet.
blonde dumb falls huge plastic
A dumb blonde who falls for a huge plastic finger. Judith Crist
blonde satan
He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan. Dashiell Hammett
blonde brown colour dark looked stern
I have dark brown hair. I've also got a very stern look, and with that colour I would look very gloomy. Blonde looked a lot fresher. Kim Wilde
calling cannot colleagues duty great high historic honor house humbling lead number rather urged
On this historic day, it is a high honor and rather humbling that a great number of my colleagues have come to me and urged me to lead the House into the 21st century, ... It is a calling that I have not sought. However, it is a duty that I cannot ignore. Dennis Hastert
calling dean market rolling scares tax
Dean probably scares the market the most because he, for now at least, is calling for rolling back all of the tax cuts.
calling coach plays telling
Coach was calling the plays and telling me to make plays. I just do what he says. Kyle Lowry
call client either gonna question reason sale sell sells stock
And there is no such thing as a no-sale call. A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can't. Either way a sale is made, the only question is who is gonna close? You or him? Now be relentless. That's it, I'm done.
call practice trusted work
I wanted to go; I didn't want to call a timeout. But that's our system. That's how we practice. We trusted the system, and it just didn't work out that time.
calling food management shouts starts tells
Someone shouts food fight; food starts flying; management comes and tells us to get out or we're calling the police.
call demand senators stand time
Now is the time for each of us to stand up and demand change. Call your senators at once,
call goodness mom several thank
Thank goodness his mom was OK. He couldn't just call down there, and he couldn't go down there (for several days).
call marvel
Tell me, O Octopus, I begs,/ Is those things arms, or is they legs?/ I marvel at thee, Octopus; If I were thou, I'd call me Us.
suicide men evil
A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue. Ayn Rand
suicide blow brain
Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I'll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I'll go bowling. Al Yankovic
suicide answers destruction
Suicide is not an answer, it's destruction. Al Green
suicide self sin
Self-pity is a sin. It is a form of living suicide. Charles J. Shields
suicide hate loving-you
I hate myself for loving you and the weakness that it showed. You were just a painted face on a trip down to suicide road. Bob Dylan
suicide writing men
When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my age there was very little left to kill. It was good to be old, no matter what they said. It was reasonable that a man had to be at least 50 years old before he could write with anything like clarity. Charles Bukowski
suicide suicidal law
The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids. Aristotle
suicide spring real
in a middle of a room stands a suicide sniffing a Paper rose smiling to a self "somewhere it is Spring and sometimes people are in real:imagine somewhere real flowers,but I can't imagine real flowers for if I could,they would somehow not Be real" (so he smiles smiling)"but I will not everywhere be real to you in a moment" The is blond with small hands "& everything is easier than I had guessed everything would be;even remembering the way who looked at whom first,anyhow dancing e. e. cummings
suicide thinking grandparent
It's impossible for me to hear the words quadruple murder suicide without thinking of my grandparents. Anthony Jeselnik