I have so many favorite writers, it's very hard to select a few. . . of classic writers, … - Joyce Carol Oates

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I usually can be more honest writing songs than actually talking to people.

Joyce Carol Oates

I have so many favorite writers, it's very hard to select a few. . . of classic writers, I have always admired Emily Dickinson and Henry David Thoreau.

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I never change, I simply become more myself.

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Novels usually evolve out of 'character. ' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an aesthetic coherence.

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Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

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How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

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Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

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Claude Monet

What is it that's taken hold of me, for me to carry on like this in relentless pursuit of something beyond my powers?

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Eckhart Tolle

An enlightened person or business is not concerned primarily with making money, because when you are concerned with making money you want the future more than the present. Whenever you want the future more than you want the present, true intelligence cannot flow into what you do, because it can do so only when you are totally aligned with the present moment.

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Joshua Radin

I usually can be more honest writing songs than actually talking to people.

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George Scialabba

Modernity is the ensemble of changes - intellectual, political, economic, social, cultural, technological, aesthetic - that have altered the world drastically since roughly the 17th century, until which time the world was, in the above respects, far less different from the world of any previous epoch of recorded history than it is from the world of today. The modern predicament is the set of problems these changes have bequeathed us.

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Bill Walton

Why is Scottie Pippen taking a charge? Taking a charge is for people with no game!

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