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"You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations."
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"Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack."
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"Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter."
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"The undertone of miracle focused gospel is that people will want to get something from nothing."
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"Expectations create and shape reality."
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"Not the action, but the expectation creates results."
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"Expectation creates the reality."
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"Through our expectations, we violently expand and try to fill the world with our proofs of worth."
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"Live without expectations. Don't set parameters on your life by telling yourself that something can only be enjoyed if it is a certain way. Allow life to surprise you. Keep an open mind and enjoy all of life's treasures."
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"The problem with many people is that they would plant a pear tree and expect it to bear some mango fruit."
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"I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life."
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"I didn't finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldn't work and I didn't have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more."
Work
"You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations."
Expectation
"What's funny about Jesus' Son is that I never even wrote that book, I just wrote it down. I would tell these stories and people would say, You should write these things down."
Fun
"If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not fact, but something that gets you closer to the truth. That's what we want. When we go to a play, we need to be assured that the experience we're having."
Experience
"If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore."
Fiction
"When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar."
Thought
"I'd met a woman and I got married, but the money ran out right away. I hadn't had a job for seven months, and it just came over me that I was never going to work again. It hit me."
Money
"I was probably 35 when I wrote the first story. The voice is kind of a mix in that it has a young voice, but it's also someone who's looking back. I like that kind of double vision."
Vision
"All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first."
Poetry
"I think it's silly for anyone to think you could write under the influence, but if they'd like to think that, I'd like to keep the legend alive. Maybe I was under the influence when I wrote Jesus' Son and I just didn't know it."
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