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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."
"American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers."
"In more ways than any of us can name, love is wrapped up with the idea of expectation."
"Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter."
"When everything was right, something was bound to go wrong. (Jessica)"
"Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself."
"Expectation is faith in motion: you expect the things you hope for to happen."
"We call bad one who rejects the fruit he is given for the fruit he is expecting or the fruit he was given last time."
"Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true."
"The undertone of miracle focused gospel is that people will want to get something from nothing."
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"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."
"In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill with language, just to be more truthful. I'm not concerned with the accuracy of anything. We don't get to the truth of anything with facts."
"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."
"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."
"When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar."
"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."
"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."
"All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first."
"I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off."
"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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