Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing. - E. L. Doctorow

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My first soldier role was in 'Flags of Our Fathers. ' Casting director Jay Binder saw that movie and was looking for soldiers for 'Journey's End,' which led to 'Generation Kill. '

E. L. Doctorow

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing.

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Uncharged with invisible meaning, the visible is nothing, mere clay; and without visible circumstance, a territory, to connect to, our spirit is shapeless, nameless, and undefined.

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Most people are quiet in the world, and live in it tentatively, as if it were not their own.

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There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking.

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Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.

Inarguable, Moral, Purity, Satire, Selective, Truth

The difference between Socrates and Jesus is that no one had ever been put to death in Socrates' name. And that is because Socrates' ideas were never made law. Law, in whatever name, protects privilege.

Death, Difference, Jesus, Law, Names

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My first soldier role was in 'Flags of Our Fathers. ' Casting director Jay Binder saw that movie and was looking for soldiers for 'Journey's End,' which led to 'Generation Kill. '

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Alexander Pope

Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.

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Whoopi Goldberg

When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.

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Khalil Gibran

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward. And there are those who give with pain, and that pain is their baptism. And there are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue; They give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its fragrance into space. Through the hands of such as these God speaks, and from behind their eyes he smiles upon the earth.

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Theodore Isaac Rubin

Have you considered that if you don't make waves, nobody including yourself will know that you are alive?

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