"No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock."

-- Grace Paley

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“As I've always said, 'I'm a lover, not a fighter.' I'm much better with women than I am being tough in a bar!”
“Although war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils.”
“I think that the casual reader and the lyric and confession are trickily tied up together. I mean often when I read my students' poems my first impulse is to say, "O, the subject of this pronoun, this 'I,' is whatever kid wrote this poem." The audience for lyric poems is "confessionalized" to some extent. And I think this audience tends to find long narrative poems, for instance, kind of bewildering.”
“Old dark sleepy pool... Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!”
“Wouldn't this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive?”
“We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling.”

Source : Niall Williams (2014). “History of the Rain: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014”, p.3, A&C Black
“Everyone forgets that what's fun about a romantic comedy is how these two people are going to fight with each other and how's that going to be funny.”
“The idea of passing one's whole life in moral idleness, and having one's hardest work and duty done by another-whether God or man-is most revolting to us, as it is most degrading to human dignity.”

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