Science fiction is the agent provocateur of literature. - Dana Stabenow

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Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life needs its pauses, its chapter breaks, if the soul is to have space to breathe.

Dana Stabenow

Science fiction is the agent provocateur of literature.

Agents, Fiction, Literature, Provocateur, Science

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To be a writer is to embrace rejection as a way of life.

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Cops never took anything on faith, and disbelieved every story that was told them on principle until and unless they could confirm that the story was fact in all its essentials, and even then remained wary and unconvinced. Cop shops bred skeptics. Skeptics cherished few illusions about human nature, and therefore were seldom disappointed.

Essentials, Principles, Seldom, Stories, Unless, Wary

Why was it that the instant you sent someone a check, no matter how worthy the organization, the first thing they did was ask you for more? Irritating, and a waste of the money she had just sent them.

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Over a third of the Newenhan population was under eighteen,which didn't make his job any easier, the hormonally challenged being terminally and all too often fatally prone to acts of stupidity.

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At the moment developing a nice little inoffensive cancer somewhere on dry land seemed infinitely preferable to what she was grimly convinced was soon to be her death by drowning way too far out at sea.

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Jonathan Sacks

Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life needs its pauses, its chapter breaks, if the soul is to have space to breathe.

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Kurt Cobain

I've never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself scribbling on little notepads and pieces of loose paper, which results in a very small portion of my writings to ever show up in true form.

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Shannon Bream

As a straight news correspondent I would never make an issue of someone's personal life unless they have put it out there for public consumption.

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Barack Obama

Climate change is one of the issues I worry most about because its impacts are enormous. But they're gradual, they're not immediate.

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Joan Crawford

If I can't be me, I don't want to be anybody

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