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"One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable."
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"I have always been honest about my recollection of events."
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"At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword."
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"Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events."
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"The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation."
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"By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate."
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"I outline fairly extensively because I'm usually dealing with real events. I don't need to give myself as much information as I used to, but I still like to have two pages of outline for every projected 100 pages of manuscript."
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"I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't happen, but it might have."
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"In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that came under my notice during my sojourn in the interior of Africa."
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"Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred."
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"I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think."
Poetry
"I tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so painful they can just barely bring themselves to write about it. A writer has to draw blood."
Blood
"The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry."
Poetry
"Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts."
Poetry
"The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged."
Books
"If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable."
Poetry
"Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there."
Literature
"Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start."
Family
"One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime."
Poetry
"With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed."
Prose
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