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“a certain bohemian, good-witch sort of charm”

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Michael Cunningham is an American writer renowned for his novel 'The Hours', which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998. His works often explore themes of identity, memory, and gender. more

“Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: 'My brilliance is possibly most apparent in my dazzling short story, "The Cookiepants Hypotenuse."' Or else they get unbearably cutesy: 'My cat Ootsywootums has given me all my best ideas, hasn't oo, squeezums?”

Writing Ideas Stories Given Cat Criticism Short Story Brilliance Dazzling Conceited Business Writing

Author:Connie Willis

“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”

Needs Long Important Real Bothered Something Real Not Bothered

Book:Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

“And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to persist in love.”

Humans Enough Purpose Human Life Persist Lilies

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“the world is neither meaningful, nor absurd. it quite simply is, and that, in any case, is what is so remarkable about it.”

World Cases Meaningful Absurd Remarkable

Author:Alain Robbe-Grillet

“If this advertisement be not sufficient, I can only protrude my wormlike tendrils of apology, craving forbearance on the grounds that a writer must write about what he knows, and since I know nothing about any subject it scarcely matters where I dabble.”

Ifs Knows Writing I Can Matter Subjects Sufficient Apology Craving Advertisements Forbearance

Book:Butterfly Stories: A Novel

Source: Butterfly Stories: A Novel

“Son, you can't go around painting yourself black, you hear?" "Why not, Papa?" "Because they'll take you away." "Why?" "Because you shouldn't want to be like black people or Jewish people or anyone who is...not us." "Who are Jewish people?" "You know my oldest customer, Mr. Kaufmann? Where we bought your shoes?" "Yes." "Well, he's Jewish." "I didn't know that. Do you have to pay to be Jewish? Do you need a license?" ..... "...you've got beautiful blond hair and big safe blue eyes. You should be happy with that; is that clear?”

People Knows Want Needs Should Wells Bigs Eye Beautiful Black Pay Clear Painting Son Hair Safe Blue Shoes Customers Why Not Black People License Blue Eyes Papa

Author:Markus Zusak

“Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.”

People Life Inspirational Enemy Deep Thought Dishonesty Flatterer Win Friends And Influence People

Book:How to Win Friends and Influence People

Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People

“Anybody who has had the pleasure of reading an article about themselves in the press, knows that on the whole, there is a huge amount of inaccuracy, value judgment and the use of a crowbar to insert editorial bias that reflects the current political leaning of that particular paper.”

Knows Whole Use Political Values Reading Pleasure Particular Huge Amount Paper Judgment Presses Currents Articles Bias Editorials Insert Pleasure Of Reading

Author:Jo Brand

“The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.”

Greater Primitive White Noise

Book:White Noise

Source: White Noise

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