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Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.


Margaret Atwood


#course #dead #democracy #else #everything

I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.


Kate Adie


#been #eat #heart #i #life

When the boy was with his father in the house outside of the city, he was drilled about visitors to the apartment. His father took careful notes. Were there men? he said. And all the boy could think of were the men who brought their dinners, who fixed their sink and toilet. What about late nights? Does she go out at night? Does she leave you alone? The light on those mornings streaming through the windows made him yearn for the the diffuse gray light of the city, its cool tones, like the side of a ship gliding into a harbor. - third eye


Meg Sefton


#flash-fiction #short-story #men

I won’t have you calling me Miss Tuttle. That’s what the doc calls me. And the lady at the bank. One takes my temperature and the other my money. Friends don’t take anything—they give.


Diane Lynn McGyver


#humour #short-story #money

It takes both sides to build a bridge.


Fredrik Nael


#indonesian #love #patience #relationship #romance

Segala hal yang dikatakan Komandan mengenai Orde adalah kebenaran yang tidak dilebih-lebihkan. Orde memang bersinonim dengan kebaikan. Orde menghargai kemajuan. Orde mencintai kehidupan. Orde bahkan mengajarkan pertobatan. Semua yang dijabarkan di dalam Kitab pada dasarnya akan berakhir pada kebahagiaan, pun setelah kematian. Akan tetapi Orde dan Kitab adalah takdir. Yang tidak dapat dibantah dan harus diterima semua orang dengan pasrah. Sama seperti penglihatanku, Orde tidak memberikan pilihan.


Fredrik Nael


#fantasy-fiction #fate #indonesian #order #religion

A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.


Jack Adams


#class #first #first class #got #me

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.


Lynn Abbey


#enough #good #ground #instinct #just

Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.


Lynn Abbey


#balance #because #commitment #different #dull

Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.


Edward Albee


#come #correctly #distance #go #long






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