"The whole creative process...is putting opposites together into something that wasn't there before."

-- Doris Betts

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“The tide rises, the tide falls, The twilight darkens, the curlew calls; The little waves, with their soft, white hands, Efface the footprints in the sands, And the tide rises, the tide falls.”
“The words are all gone, the time's been too long but it's not too late to say I'm sorry to a friend”

Source : Song: Sorry to a Friend
“No state legislature ever built a great university.”
“Once in our world, a Stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world.”
“No one writes a story like Lydia Davis. In the years since she began publishing her lyrical, extremely short fiction, she has quietly become one of the most impactful influences on American writers, even if they don't know it. That's largely because she makes economy seem so easy. You could read several of her stories into a friend's voicemail box before you were cut off (and you should). You could fit one of her stories in this column. Some you could write on your palm.”
“Before the first World War women were arrested for smoking cigarettes in public, for using profanity, for appearing on beaches without stockings, for driving automobiles without a man beside them, for wearing outlandish attire for example, shorts”

Source : Geoffrey Perret (1982). “America in the twenties: a history”, Simon & Schuster
“Soup's on and I got a coupon. Chinese restaurant asking for the Grey Poupon. He said "No, duck sauce, soy sauce... And this ain't no Burger King, so you no get no toy, boss."”
“After all, if you make your enemy look like a fool, you lose the justification for engaging him.”

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