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Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

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Joyce Carol Oates

Writing is the most solitary of arts.

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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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Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

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Laila Lalami has fashioned an absorbing story of one of the first encounters between Spanish conquistadores and Native Americans, a frightening, brutal, and much-falsified history that here, in her brilliantly imagined fiction, is rewritten to give us something that feels very like the truth.

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I was starstruck by Madonna. She's one of the few remaining superstars. I'm so impressed by her level of discipline towards her career. We did have a little chat, and she wasn't remotely intimidating, just lovely and open.

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John Bolton

In the United States, there is a broadly shared view that the U. N. is one of many potential instruments to advance U. S. issues, and we have to decide whether a particular issue is best done through the U. N. or best done through some other mechanism.

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The democratic process is only as great as the people who participate in it.

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