"To see the future you have to travel on the rough edge of experience."

-- Harriet Rubin

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“Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any novelist nimble enough to get away with it. There is, in fact, only one rule in writing fiction: Whatever works, works.”
“I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten.”
“Victory fades so quickly that it is scarcely apparent and it is always the face of defeat that we are able to see.”

Source : Jane Bowles (2014). “My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles”, p.186, Macmillan
“One of the embarrassing facts from social psychology is that most stereotypes are true, in the only sense that stereotypes are ever true: on average.”

Source : "Stereotypes of homosexuals". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. August 23, 2002.
“We all know from growing up with TV that John Wells shows are usually very large ensembles with amazingly written characters. He tends to redefine the way stories are told in a specific genre, whether it's 'China Beach,' 'The West Wing,' or 'E.R.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If I'm going to fly for more than twenty feet it's generally a good idea to get a stunt guy.”
“I do not see class as a 'structure', nor even as a 'category', but as something which in fact happens (and can be shown to have happened) in human relationships... the notion of class entails the notion of historical relationship. ...And class happens when some men, as a result of common experiences (inherited or shared), feel and articulate the identity of their interests as between themselves, and as against other men whose interests are different from (and usually opposed to) theirs”

Source : E. P. Thompson (1963). “THE MAKING OF THE ENGLISH WORKING CLASS”
“Well, no athlete respects a big, fat coach who's going to stand there and rest the watch on his stomach.”

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