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Fiction isn't memoir and memoir isn't fiction.
Arthur Phillips / Novelist
Fiction
Memoir
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I like Shakespeare. I like some of his work a lot.
Arthur Phillips / Novelist
Shakespeare
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It was so much easier to be alone, if one could find just the right location.
Arthur Phillips / Novelist
Easier
Ifs
Location
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I am notorious for always having two beagles with me, in any and all circumstances.
Arthur Phillips / Novelist
Circumstances
Notorious
Always Me I Am
I Am Me Always
Having
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You deicde, and you make our night what you want. Brilliant and ours. Stupid and theirs.
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Night
Stupid
Want
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There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement.
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Arrangements
Contemplation
Order
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When a character bears the same name as the author it's just an invitation to have some fun.
Arthur Phillips / Novelist
Bears
Author
Invitation
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How much of life could he spend aching? Aching is not a stable condition; it must resolve into something
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Conditions
Resolve
Stable
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But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism.
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Minimum
Music Is
Snobbery
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Love is not sufficient. It never has been. Stories that claim otherwise are lies. There's always SOMETHING after happily ever after.
Arthur Phillips / Novelist
Love Is
Lying
Stories
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Write. Enjoy writing. Then, and only then, worry about the business end of it. Start loving your hobby, and then you can't go too wrong.
Arthur Phillips / Novelist
Hobby
Loving
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It would be hard to exaggerate Ernest Hemingway's influence over American literature, but his influence on our lives is probably larger still.
Arthur Phillips / Novelist
American Literature
Influence
Literature
Our Lives
Exaggerate
Hemingway
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As a rule, I am lazy and prefer to avoid anything resembling work, and research feels like work, as opposed to my strong suit, which is sitting around making things up.
Arthur Phillips / Novelist
Lazy
Work I Am Research
Prefer
Avoid
Opposed
Resembling
Strong Suit
Suit
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I do worry that it's impossible to write something original, that there's nothing that a human hasn't already thought of. But I can put it out of my mind and get on with what I'm doing.
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Impossible
Worry
Original
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Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of what is going on in someone else's head. To me, that is the great mystery of life: what is everyone else thinking?
Arthur Phillips / Novelist
Form
One Thing
Thinking
Life Art Great
Art Form
Convey
Everyone Else
Head
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The strangest thing. I came to the end of other people so quickly. Each new person was like a glass of water, and at the beginning I was parched, but then each glass tasted a little worse, the water was grittier, and by the end even the first sip was enough to make me gag, you know?
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Glasses
People
Water
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The memoir industry is, what's the word? Under regulated. I think it needs to be pruned. If there are too many books right now and the market for readers is shrinking, I think we can get rid of many of the memoirs. Another memoir should be awfully well justified before it gets published.
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Justified
Memoir
Shrinking
Published
Readers
Rid
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The truth is, anyone who puts so much of herself and her life into art as you do must naturally fear any failure in that art as a potential threat to your life. And so you protect your art more than you protect your health or the common forms of happiness the rest of us have. And you probably have this in common with every artist you admire.
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Art
Common
Truth Is
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I'm an aesthetic empiricist. If you like something, it doesn't matter who made it. There really is no objective standard other than your own taste. You develop your own tastes, you find things that do or do not fit your tastes, and therefore are or are not 'good.' Whether they have been labeled as produced by the right person is another matter.
Arthur Phillips / Novelist
Aesthetic
Right Person
Taste
Labeled
Objective
Standard
Produced
Therefore
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He fell in love with Manhattan's skyline, like a first-time brothel guest falling for a seasoned professional. He mused over her reflections in the black East River at dusk, dawn, or darkest night, and each haloed light-in a tower or strung along the jeweled and sprawling spider legs of the Brooklyn Bridge's spans-hinted at some meaning, which could be understood only when made audible by music and encoded in lyrics.
Arthur Phillips / Novelist
Fall
Night
Reflection
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