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"You don't teach information in a writing workshop."
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"Perfect truth (symmetry) is information that doesn't change and pure randomness is a difference that doesn't make a difference."

"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."

"When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation."

"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."

"I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about."

"Disinformation is duping. Misinformation is tricking."

"I have never refused to talk to any authorities or give them any information I had."

"On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us."

"Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information."

"Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the reliability of these biblical documents."
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"Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it."


"Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one another all the time and cause one another to change and have the opportunity to observe the changes over time."


"That, for me, is a very important test of a young writer's commitment because most of them are going to have to continue doing that when they've finished the program."


"Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented."
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