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I wish I knew how to quit you.
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Movie
Romantic
Real Love
Romance
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What we fear we often rage against.
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I would rather be dead than not read
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If you can't fix it, you have to stand it.
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It's easier to die if others around you are dying.
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Dies
Dying
Easier
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Develop craftsmanship through years of wide reading.
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Reading
Wide
Years
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I am influenced by words and the chewiness of language
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And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.
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May
Misery
Pain
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A spinning coin, still balanced on its rim, may fall in either direction.
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Coins
Fall
May
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...all them things I don't know could get you killed if I come to know them
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Brokeback Mountain
Ifs
Knows
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Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.
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Teacher
Reading
Writing
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Ordinary parties, he thought, were subtle games of sexual and social badminton.
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Games
Ordinary
Party
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Wonderful ... I was up all night reading it, laughing and crying out in horror.
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Laughing
Night
Reading
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You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.
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Life Is
Real
Tragedy
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We're all strange inside. We learn how to disguise our differences as we grow up.
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Differences
Growing Up
Strange
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All the travelin I ever done is going around the coffeepot looking for the handle.
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Done
Handle
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It takes a year, nephew... a full turn of the calendar, to get over losing someone.
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Losing Someone
Nephew
Years
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Anyway, there's something wrong with everybody and it's up to you to know what you can handle.
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Handle
Knows
Up To You
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I think it's important to leave spaces in a story for readers to fill in from their own experience.
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Space
Thinking
Writing
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In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter.
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House
Insightful
Story Writers
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If you get the landscape right, the characters will step out of it, and they'll be in the right place.
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Character
Landscape
Writing
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If a piece of knotted string can unleash the wind, and if a drowned man can awaken, then I believe a broken man can heal.
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Men
Believe
Wind
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Change itself is what fascinates me. I am drawn, as a moth to the flame, by edge situations, by situations of metamorphosis.
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Crafts
Flames
Metamorphosis
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Their silence comfortable. Something unfolding. But what? Not love, which wrenched and wounded. Not love, which came only once.
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Silence
Unfolding
Wounded
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I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.
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Balance
Brevity
Hair
Play
Satisfying
Short Story
Find
Short
Stimulating
Intellectually
Word
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... there are four women in every man’s heart. The Maid in the Meadow, the Demon Lover, the Stouthearted Woman, the Tall and Quiet Woman.
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Men
Heart
Maids
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If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards.
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Academy
Academy Awards
Awards
Independent
Judging
Merit
Next Year
Pay Attention
Skip
Smart
Years
Based
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No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble.
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Cowboy
Godly
Humble
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And I think that's important, to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself.
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Adversity
Thinking
Water
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Everybody that went away suffered a broken heart. "I'm coming back some day," they all wrote. But never did. The old life was too small to fit anymore.
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Broken
Fit
Heart
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There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can't fix it you've got to stand it.
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Space
Believe
Brokeback Mountain
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It is my feeling that a story is not finished until it is read, and that the reader finishes it through his or her life experience, prejudices, worldview and thoughts.
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Feelings
Prejudice
Views
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You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.
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Teacher
Reading
Writing
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Archie was an expert at dividing the affairs of life into men's business and women's business. An empty cupboard and a full plate were the man's business, a full cupboard and an empty plate the concern of the woman.
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Men
Affair
Experts
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But the only rhyme he could summon for 'out' was 'sauerkraut,' which lacked poetic glory. He let it go. The right line would come in time. That was the thing about poetry. It crept up through the draws and coulees of the brain.
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Brain
Let It Go
Writing
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If life was an arc of light that began in darkness, ended in darkness, the first part of his life had happened in ordinary glare. Here it was as though he had found a polarized lens that deepened and intensified all seen through it.
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Darkness
Light
Ordinary
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He pressed his face into the fabric and breathed in slowly through his mouth and nose, hoping for the faintest smoke and mountain sage and salty sweet stink of Jack but there was no real scent, only the memory of it, the imagined power of Brokeback Mountain of which nothing was left but what he held in his hands.
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Memories
Real
Sweet
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I rarely use the internet for research, as I find the process cumbersome and detestable. The information gained is often untrustworthy and couched in execrable prose. It is unpleasant to sit in front of a twitching screen suffering assault by virus, power outage, sluggish searches, system crashes and the lack of direct human discourse.
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Atmosphere
Hustle
Suffering
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Walking on the land or digging in the fine soil I am intensely aware that time quivers slightly, changes occurring in imperceptible and minute ways, accumulating so subtly that they seem not to exist. Yet the tiny shifts in everything--cell replication, the rain of dust motes, lengthening hair, wind-pushed rocks--press inexorably on and on.
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Hair
Rain
Rocks
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We face up to awful things because we can't go around them, or forget them. The sooner you get it over with, the sooner you say 'Yes, it happened, and there's nothing I can do about it,' the sooner you can get on with your own life. You've got children to bring up. So you've got to get over it. What we have to get over, somehow we do. Even the worst things.
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Life
Acceptance
Children
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and they shook hands, hit each other on the shoulder, then there was forty feet of distance between them and nothing to do but drive away in opposite directions. Within a mile Ennis felt like someone was pulling his guts out hand over hand a yard at a time. He stopped at the side of the road and, in the whirling new snow, tried to puke but nothing came up. He felt about as bad as he ever had and it took a long time for the feeling to wear off.
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Distance
Hands
Opposites
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Was love then like a bag of assorted sweets passed around from which one might choose more than once? Some might sting the tongue, some invoke night perfume. Some had centers as bitter as gall, some blended honey and poison, some were quickly swallowed. And among the common bull's-eyes and peppermints a few rare ones; one or two with deadly needles at the heart, another that brought clam and gentle pleasure. Were his fingers closing on that one?
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Eye
Heart
Sweet
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For if Jack Buggit could escape from the pickle jar, if a bird with a broken neck could fly away, what else might be possible? Water may be older than light, diamonds crack in hot goat's blood, mountaintops give off cold fire, forests appear in mid-ocean, it may happen that a crab is caught with the shadow of a hand on its back, and that the wind be imprisoned in a bit of knotted string. And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.
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Ocean
Fire
Pain
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What I find to be very bad advice is the snappy little sentence, 'Write what you know.' It is the most tiresome and stupid advice that could possibly be given. If we write simply about what we know we never grow. We don't develop any facility for languages, or an interest in others, or a desire to travel and explore and face experience head-on. We just coil tighter and tighter into our boring little selves. What one should write about is what interests one.
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Self
Stupid
Writing
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I didn't have a chance to buy you anything," she said, then held both closed hands toward him. Uncurled her fingers. In each cupped palm a brown egg. He took them. They were cold. He thought it a tender, wonderful thing to do. She had given him something, the eggs, after all, only a symbol, but they had come from her hands as a gift. To him. It didn't matter that he'd bought them himself at the supermarket the day before. He imagined she understood him, that she had to love him to know that it was the outstreched hands, the giving, that mattered.
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Eggs
Giving
Hands
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