Quotes on short-story

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She knew she could never love any man the way she loved a blank sheet of paper that only she could fill.

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Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.

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The Scottish sun, shocked by having its usual cloudy underpinnings stripped away, shone feverishly, embarrassed by its nakedness.

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I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief.

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For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.

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It's unexpectedly painful to have become a pronoun.

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He felt a little lost, after that experience. Lost as the girls on their knees. It was a never-ending story of young girls losing themselves, such that they were no longer humans with any souls or characters, but pretty girls with fat asses and nice tits.

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As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again. We have a second chance at biting into our experience and examining it. ...This is our life and it's not going to last forever. There isn't time to talk about someday writing that short story or poem or novel. Slow down now, touch what is around you, and out of care and compassion for each moment and detail, put pen to paper and begin to write.

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While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.

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Humans are aware of very little, it seems to me, the artificial brainy side of life, the worries and bills and the mechanisms of jobs, the doltish psychologies we've placed over our lives like a stencil. A dog keeps his life simple and unadorned.

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She craved a family, not having had enough of one to understand what a pain in the ass it was.

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