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"It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger."
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"Working is hard and distracts from having fun."
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Personal Development
"It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something."
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Personal Development
"Frozen yogurt is tastier than ice cream; nobody is too old for cartoons; bald men are sexy; chocolate is the best medicine; BIG books are better; cats secretly rule the planet; and everything should be available in the color pink, including monster trucks."
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"It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified."
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"It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget."
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"I had more fun making Traffic than either of the Ocean's films."
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"It's good to ski for fun, but I still want to win races as often as possible."
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"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."
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"You'd be surprised how much fun you can have sober. When you get the hang of it."
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"The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story."
Reading
"I love Chekhov. I could go on all day about him."
Love
"One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love."
Love
"There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody."
Self
"It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time."
Time
"Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community."
Work
"Because the more you write the more you're aware of the weight of your tradition and the difficulties of the form and the more you have already done that you do not want to do again."
Writing
"Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order."
Writing
"The short story, on the other hand, is the perfect American form."
Literature
"I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels."
Poetry
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