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I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story. ↗

— Eric Brown

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I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities. ↗

— Ken Burns

#accurate #democracy #film #future #i

Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose! ↗

— Robert Burns

#cant #characters #decorum #lose #them

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion. ↗

— John Burroughs

#been #curiosity #joy #keen #religion

That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen. ↗

— Michael Harrington

#forgotten #important #important things #invisible #most

It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality. ↗

— Ellen Burstyn

#addicted #addictions #avoiding #basis #become

In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies. ↗

— L. Sprague de Camp

#advance #avoid #characters #contradictions #detail

Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#am #because #comes #depressed #down

Indians were here first - it's about time. We're way behind the African Americans and Hispanic Americans in getting politically involved, but we're beginning to take a page out of their notebook. ↗

— Ben Nighthorse Campbell

#african #african americans #beginning #behind #first

Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown. ↗

— Earl Campbell

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