"I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James."

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David Antin

#Long Quotes #Format Quotes #Prose Quotes

“I don't want to be that parent that puts my kids into what I think they should be in, you know what I mean?”
“I think that people are going to find more interest in the human condition, especially with them being weaned on so much reality television. They want character driven stuff along with real violence. Cage fighting is very popular with the kids right now. They see and know what one punch can do to someone's face. You can't give someone five hundred punches in a film anymore.”
“You can't get away, I can't fill my car up at a gas station without Coors Light, Bud Light, Corona, whatever, it's just the way it is.”
“To make real change, you have to be well anchored - not only in the belief that it can be done, but also in some pretty real ways about who you are and what you can do.”
“When you go to other parks, they hang banners for the wild-card or Eastern Division or Western Division champions. Around here, they don't hang anything unless its for being world champions.”
“Be assured that Christianity is something more than forms and creeds and ceremonies: there is life, and power, and reality, in our holy faith.”
“All characters are based on elements of a writer's personal experience.”
“Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.”

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