"One of the primary differences for me between fiction and poetry is that fiction uses every sort of tool that poetry does but hides it much, much more. Fiction doesn't necessarily reveal what it's doing with rhythm and sound and patterning."

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Source : "5×5: Brian Evenson". Interview with Hayden Bennett, believermag.com. January 15, 2015.

Brian Evenson

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“Women's liberation could have not succeeded if science had not provided them with contraception and household technology.”

Source : "The Impact of Science on Society: The Challenge for Education". "Science and Technology and Future Human Needs" by J. L. Lewis and P. J. Kelly, 1987.
“As chairman of the Senate subcommittee responsible for NASA appropriations, I say not a penny for this nutty fantasy.”
“there is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.”
“It is necessary to remember, as we think critically about domination, that we all have the capacity to act in ways that oppress, dominate, wound (whether or not that power is institutionalized). It is necessary to remember that it is first the potential oppressor within that we must resist â€“ the potential victim within that we must rescue â€“ otherwise we cannot hope for an end to domination, for liberation.”
“. . I tell you Dain is a splendid catch. I advise you to set your hooks and reel him in.â€ Jessica took a long swallow of her cognac. â€œThis is not a trout, Genevieve. This is a great, hungry shark.â€ â€œThen use a harpoon.”
“Let's face it, there's no point in running away. I will find that person myself and I will change Saet Byul's fate”
“Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes for a living.”
“For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.”

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