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Kathleen Rooney

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Kathleen Rooney is a writer whose works span various literary forms including novels, poetry, and essays. Her writing often delves into themes of personal identity, cultural conflict, and social justice in modern life.

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“وقتی با قلبت کار نمی کنی، همه ی اشتیاق در کار از بین می رود.”

Passion Novel رمان استقلال و هویت Indepence And Identify Work And Effort اشتیاق کار و تلاش

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“گفتم:(( الیو، من عشق را تمسخر نمی کنم. چیزی که دست می اندازم دسته بندی احساساتی است. احمقانه، ایده ی ساده انگارانه ی عشق است که تبلیغ کنندگان، از جمله ما، برای فروش هر چیزی از سوپ تا صابون از آن استفاده می کنیم.”

Romance Work American Literature عشق ادبیات آمریکا Womenhood کار استقلال و هویت Independent And Identify زنانگی

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“اگر قوانین وجود دارند، باید قابل بحث و دفاع باشند؛ مانند آداب معاشرت. من هیچ کاری را چون خانواده ام آن را انجام دادند انجام نمی دهم. کارهایم را به آن خاطر که معقول به نظر می رسند و چون برازنده هستند انجام می دهم.”

Work Laws American Literature ادبیات آمریکا کار استقلال و هویت Independenc And Identify قوانین

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“The point of living in the world is just to stay interested.”

Motivation Living Resilience Keep On

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“If there are to be rules, they must be articulable and defensible, like etiquette. I do not do anything simply because my family did it. I do things because they make sense, and because they are elegant.”

Class Elegance Etiquette Rules How To Act

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“All right, all right," he said, with that gesture I'd come to hate: two open palms facing me and patting the air, as if pushing me away, pushing me down, pushing any tears I might be preparing to cry back into their ducts.”

Fighting Relationships Tears Divorce Crying Couples Suppression Holding Back

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“I spent my first Christmas in the city alone. Alone, but not lonely; in the state of being solitary but not the condition of wishing myself otherwise. Solitude enrobed me like a long, warm coat.”

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“When I have all of Manhattan to choose from I tend to dither, to hold out for perfection—but as any poet can testify, limits encourage both inspiration and decisiveness.”

Inspiration Choices Limits Decisiveness

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“I thought at times that poetry might be an elegant way of screaming.”

Poetry Expression Anger Feeling

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“I am old and all I have left is time. I don't mean time to live; I mean free time. Time to fill. Time to kill until time kills me. I walk and walk and think and think.”

Age New York City Time Passing Aging Gracefully Elderly Women

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“Times Square, much like these TV ads, expects little of us, if not quite the worst. Instead of treating one like an overgrown six-year-old with impulse control issues and a huge piggy bank ready for the smashing, as the ads do, it treats one like an enormous genital. A penis with a wallet, if one prefers.”

Ads Times Square

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“The way a crane creates, then erases itself, from the skyline." He'd been referring to how I, as a copywriter, created R.H. Macy's, but the same metaphor might easily have been applied to how I, as a mother, was creating my son.”

Feminism Motherhood Advertising Copywriting Department Stores Copy Thirties Macy S Thirties Poets

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“A woman can never be too rich or too thin or too young, truly.”

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“How am I still making stupid mistakes in my eighties? Whenever somebody says to me, "Maybe it'll come with age," I want to say, 'I wouldn't count on it.”

Wisdom Age Mistakes

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“I never have trouble keeping fact and invention straight.”

Facts Trouble Invention

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“Not to give too big of a spoiler, but I never find myself thinking, for example, Oh, remember that crazy time I stumbled on that closeted Republican candidate's sex tape?”

Thinking Giving Bigs Remember Sex Crazy Example Republican Candidates Tape Spoilers Crazy Times

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“As a writer who writes poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, I think it's important to always maintain a firm grasp on genre and ethics.”

Thinking Writing Important Fiction Ethics Genre Firm Nonfiction

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“The ingredients that make a good poem often differ from those that make a good essay and from those that make a good novel.”

Novel Ingredients Essays

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“In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and compelling nonfiction are not always identical to the ones that make good fiction.”

Realizing Fiction Technique Devices Nonfiction Compelling Identical

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“Fiction is often a much-needed step back that gives you the distance to see things more clearly; it's very often better at explaining why events happened as opposed to just what happened.”

Giving Fiction Steps Happened Events Needed Distance Explaining

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“If a reader believes that everything in nonfiction or history is just objectively true, I don't really know what to tell them, except that at least in fiction, the choice of what perspective and bias to tell a given story from - which is always a deliberate choice - is foregrounded and clear.”

Ifs Knows Believe Stories Choices Given Fiction Clear Perspective Reader Nonfiction Bias Deliberate

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