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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense. Leo Rosten
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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge. Thomas Berger
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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.
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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
marriage
Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.
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Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries. Barbara Mertz
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In the end maybe what marriage offered was the determination of one's burial site. Jane Hamilton
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Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life. Susan B. Anthony
marriage girl giving-up
I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she became a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll. Had I married at twenty-one, I would have been either a drudge or a doll for fifty-five years. Think of it!
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Yes, I have 'failed' at marriage - a lot. Tracy McMillan
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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community. Brigham Young
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I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination. Dennis Rodman
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It is in vain to look for the elevation of woman so long as she is degraded in marriage. Elizabeth Cady Stanton