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These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history. They will live with the reader long after the words have been translated into ideas and dreams. That's because a good short story crosses the borders of our nations and our prejudices and our beliefs. A good short story asks a question that can't be answered in simple terms. And even if we come up with some understanding, years later, while glancing out of a window, the story still has the... Walter Mosley
Shelagh Delaney quote: "Has difficulty distinguishing fact from fiction. This girl is..."
Has difficulty distinguishing fact from fiction. This girl is a liar. Expect Improvement next term. Shelagh Delaney
...something which, for want of a more definite term at present, I must be permitted to be called queer; but which Mr. Coleridge would have called mystical, Mr. Kant pantheistical, Mr. Carlyle twistical, and Mr. Emerson hyperquizzitistical. Edgar Allan Poe
As I believe I have said, everyone in prison is an innocent man. Oh, they read the scripture the way those holy rollers on TV read the Book of Revelations. They were the victims of judges with hearts of stone and balls to match, or incompetent lawyers, or police frame-ups, or bad luck. They read the scripture, but you can see a different scripture in their faces. Most cons are a low sort, no good to themselves or anyone else, and their worst luck was that their mothers carried them to term. Stephen King
The "west"-what curse has fallen upon it that at the term of its trajectory it produces only these businessmen, these shopkeepers, these racketeers with their blank stares and atrophied smiles... is it with such vermin as this that a civilization so delicate and so complex must come to an end? Emile M. Cioran
As he quitted the room, Elizabeth felt how improbable it was that they should ever see each other again on such terms of cordiality... and as she threw a retrospective glance over the whole of their acquaintance, so full of contradictions and varieties, sighed at the perverseness of those feelings which would now have promoted its continuance, and would formerly have rejoiced in its termination. Jane Austen
Paulo Coelho quote: "We see the world in terms of what we would like to see happen,..."
We see the world in terms of what we would like to see happen, not what actually does. Paulo Coelho
Our town was rigid in many ways, in terms of the uniformity of things, the colors of skin, the makes of cars, the lushness of the lawns, but on top of that it was sort of a blank canvas, so -- and again, I guess this is true of any child -- I was ready to quickly accept the sudden and total substitutions of all I knew to be true. Dave Eggers
Barbara Ehrenreich quote: "The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in..."
The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society. Barbara Ehrenreich
Since I was five, I've known that I was adopted, which is a politically correct term for being clueless about one's own origins. Jodi Picoult
It is more or less a given that nothing is less favorable to clairvoyance than the bright sun: physical light and mental light coexist on very poor terms. Andre Breton
Socrates quote: "The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms."
The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms. Socrates
I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true. Carl Sagan
Oscar Wilde quote: "But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next..."
But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms. Oscar Wilde
The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstitiion will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate. I dont see what that has to do with catchin birds. The freedom of birds... Cormac McCarthy

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