"Could we say that the short short is to other kinds of fiction somewhat as the lyric is to other kinds of poetry? The lyric does not seek meaning through extension, it accepts the enigmas of confinement. It strives for a rapid unity of impression, an experience rendered in its wink of immediacy. And so too with the short short."

-- Irving Howe

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“An implicit confession is almost as bad as an implicit faith; wicked men commonly confess their sins by wholesale, We are all sinners; but the true penitent confesses his sins by retail.”
“The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I have nothing to lose, but something to gain.”
“Those who understand the true nature of humanity are always loners.”
“Our lives are led, and our decisions made, within a network of needs and wants, some natural, some arising from the acts of others, some aggravated by the acts of the state. We are all bored, or threatened, or tantalized in differing degrees by a perilous world, some hostile people, and a not very sensitive government.”
“People can graduate from beauty school and know everything about white hair and nothing about African-American hair.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My mother was into folk-rock when I was little, so I think of folk-rock as the norm from which everything else deviates. Of course, that's completely preposterous, but that's how I grew up. What is the norm by which to judge wordiness? I think I'm less wordy than Madonna.”
“Things start where you don't know and end up where you know. When you know is when you ask, How did this start?”

Source : Tom Spanbauer (2007). “In the City of Shy Hunters”, p.497, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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