"A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it."

-- Edgar Allan Poe

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“I grew up in a working-class community. I come from a big family. I knew Donald Trump would win because I knew he is what poor Americans think a rich person looks like. And I knew that Hillary Clinton would annoy voters in their tens of millions, because she basically sucked at communicating with poor people and seemed like a person who'd been powerful and rich for decades. She was a disastrous candidate. I mean, she was up against a psychopath and she still lost. The country's thinking was beyond her, literally.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“The best way to win at a game of chance is to remove chance from the equation.”
“Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.”

Source : Dorothy Allison (1996). “Two or Three Things I Know for Sure”, p.45, Penguin
“Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches.”
“Both teams are making mistakes. Florida's making these itsy-bitsy little ones, and Tennessee is making huge, gigantic mistakes.”
“There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that's the image that you took.”
“Putting on the same jerseys doesnâ€™t make a team. Youâ€™re still just a collection of individuals until you find a common goal.”
“A lot of shows are more script-driven, like a prose script. As an actor, you never see a storyboard.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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