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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
Lord Byron
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I rarely use the internet for research, as I find the process cumbersome and detestable. The information gained is often untrustworthy and couched in execrable prose. It is unpleasant to sit in front of a twitching screen suffering assault by virus, power outage, sluggish searches, system crashes and the lack of direct human discourse.
Annie Proulx
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And I think that's important, to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself.
Annie Proulx
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I am influenced by words and the chewiness of language
Annie Proulx
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I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.
Annie Proulx
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If a piece of knotted string can unleash the wind, and if a drowned man can awaken, then I believe a broken man can heal.
Annie Proulx
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Develop craftsmanship through years of wide reading.
Annie Proulx
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Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.
Annie Proulx
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No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble.
Annie Proulx
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Change itself is what fascinates me. I am drawn, as a moth to the flame, by edge situations, by situations of metamorphosis.
Annie Proulx
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...all them things I don't know could get you killed if I come to know them
Annie Proulx
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All the travelin I ever done is going around the coffeepot looking for the handle.
Annie Proulx
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It's easier to die if others around you are dying.
Annie Proulx
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There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can't fix it you've got to stand it.
Annie Proulx
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A spinning coin, still balanced on its rim, may fall in either direction.
Annie Proulx
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Ordinary parties, he thought, were subtle games of sexual and social badminton.
Annie Proulx
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I still want Oprah to play my best friend. I want to spend time with Oprah.
Tina Fey
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Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
Nick Cave
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Sweet is revenge-especially to women.
Lord Byron
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It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now.
Anthony Burgess
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A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.
Gertrude Stein
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Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.
Orson Welles
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Every second is of infinite value.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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