"I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't."

-- Philip Roth

#Smart Quotes #Writing Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“I thought about dying whenever I got bad news about other people.”

Source : "Jonah Lomu - The road back" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2005.
“Art in the United States is a kind of visual entertainment focusing on expected narratives.”
“Lacanian theory must be understood as a kind of â€œslave morality.”
“Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others.”
“You can be committed to somebody because of ego: 'I said I was going to be with this joker for the rest of my life, so I'm just going to do it.' Or you can be committed because you have a deeply rooted connection.”
“There [in Allied] was depicting London in the war, as well, and doing that in a way where you see something that you don't normally see, which is how hedonistic it was. In reality, that's what was going on. But, all of it worked.”
“I probably play games more than I practice.”
“The results indicate that heterogeneity of race and heterogeneity of family educational background can increase the achievement of children from weak educational backgrounds with no adverse effect on children from strong educational backgrounds.”

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