"People love gossip because it's slightly removed from actuality. It's a very literary thing... You can hear a great story, and it turns out that it's largely not true. Fiction writing is like gossip. It's not malicious gossip, but it's gossip."

-- Lorrie Moore

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“The truth is a lot easier to see when you stop assuming you already have it.”
“You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn't mean they apply to you.”

Source : Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.97, Penguin
“I shaved a lot off of a lot that I saw in that I like to be less is more and make everything count and not give anyone anything extra. I was what you see is what you got. It was organic. I came up with the persona. The persona is me, coupled together with a lot of my interests.”

Source : ""Bill Goldberg Talks To 411 About Whether WWE Has Contacted Him About Returning, WWE HOF Induction, Brock Lesnar’s UFC Fight, Developing the Goldberg Character, More" by Jeffrey Harris". 411mania.com. June 28, 2016.
“Any survival guide will tell you, don't buy a pair of combat boots before any disaster. They'll tear your feet up. Or water - don't bring water with you because it'll tire you out and you'll lose too much fluid. Bring a water pump.”
“A garden is the mirror of a mind. It is a place of life, a mystery of green moving to the pulse of the year, and pressing on and pausing the whole to its own inherent rhythms.”

Source : Henry Beston, Roger B. Swain (2001). “Herbs and the Earth”, p.6, David R. Godine Publisher
“There's something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are.”
“In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.”
“The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse, or he can put it back in his pocket at the very last minute.”

Source : Robert Capa (2015). “Slightly Out Of Focus”, p.161, Pickle Partners Publishing

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