This is how it works now with the news: the story begins with a moral, then a narrative is fashioned to support it.
Central Wyoming was like hell without the flames, an underworld thrust up onto the surface.
The atom was split by persistence.
The most beautiful faces have some ugly in them.
I've been told my old city possesses a 'thriving arts scene,' whatever that is; personally, I think artists should lie low and stick to their work, not line-dance through the parks.
I preferred that my bad dreams be vague.
She's everything I wanted when I was young and everything I distrust now that I'm not.
If I had to pick between knowing just a little about a lot of folks and knowing everything about a few, I'd opt for the long, wide-angle shot, I think.
If you’ve helped someone die, there is nothing I can tell you. If you haven’t, I don’t want to tell you. But I must, or what came later may make no sense.
What is it in people, or just in people like me, that would rather let a lie go by, would rather wish it away or minimize it, than point it out and cause the liar embarassment?
His thoughts were clearly still shoving him further away, toward some ultimate dark drama that he might or might not have actually lived through but whose telling would let out the pressure inside his...
Liars are exhausting people.
He knows, as all the cleverest ones do, that no human being is so interesting that he can't make himself more interesting still by acting retarded at random intervals.
Frustration comes from fighting your own momentum.
The jurors appear vaguely stranded and at loose ends, uprooted from their routines and livelihoods.
Truth from him, is a swan dive through a mirror into a whirlpool.
Reliving his degradation had struck some spark in him and it was glowing now like a blown-on coal.
Requesting permission from someone to be honest is really a way of accusing the other person of being so demanding or overbearing that you couldn't be honest all along.
I have very specific advice for aspiring writers: go to New York. And if you can't go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are...
Quiet cunning bested boastful brawn
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