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Porochista Khakpour

"I write first drafts feverishly fast, and then I spend years editing. It's not that sentence-by-sentence perfectionist technique some writers I admire use. I need to see the thing, in some form, and then work with it over and over and over until it makes sense to me - until its concerns approach me, until its themes come to my attention. At that editing stage, the story picks itself and it's just up to me to see it, to find it. If I've done a good job, what it all means will force me to confront it in further edits."

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Porochista Khakpour

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“Life's too mysterious to take too serious.”
“I don't like when you necessarily know that this is the end of the movie. I like when a movie ends abruptly. You go through this, and some of the scenes are uncomfortable, and some are funny - and then suddenly it's over.”
“You love me?" He just looked at me for a moment. And then he reared back his head and laughed, a rich, mellow sound, unreserved and unashamed. " No, not at all. I regularly battle gods for women I dislike!”

Source : Karen Chance (2011). “Hunt the Moon”, p.450, Penguin UK
“To summarize, using money to motivate people can be a double-edged sword. For tasks that require cognitive ability, low to moderate performance-based incentives can help. But when the incentive level is very high, it can command too much attention and thereby distract the personâ€™s mind with thoughts about the reward. This can create stress and ultimately reduce the level of performance.”
“I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt, If one be better with them or without,-- Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed, Knows the high art of what and how to read.”

Source : John Godfrey Saxe (1871). “Poems”, p.297
“I feel sure that coups d'Ã©tat would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.”
“It is now possible to live a "christian life" without doing the things that Jesus commanded us to do. We have hired people to go into all the world, to visit those in prison, to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to care for widows and orphans. The average Christian doesn't have to do it.”
“We love comfort, and people make a lot of money selling us comfort, but I would challenge the notion that comfort is usually good for us.”

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