Category: writer
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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That’s no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
Zadie Smith
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Thirty was so strange for me. I’ve really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
C. S. Lewis
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He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.
Voltaire
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Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.
Eckhart Tolle
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Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.
Woody Allen
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The reason people think it’s important to be white is that they think it’s important not to be black.
James Baldwin
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And for me anyway, consciousness is three components: a personal component which for lack of a better word we can call the soul. A collective component which is more archetypal and a deeper level, and then a universal domain of consciousness.
Deepak Chopra
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A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
George Eliot
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It is just like man’s vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
Mark Twain
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I am often the brunt of my own humor.
Charles R. Swindoll