All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.
Jeanne Moreau
Recitation: by Male by Female
I hated the reflection in the mirror. I wanted so much to be someone else... I thought that if I was thinner, the rest of my life would change.
Stephanie Klein
LifeChangeMirrorReflectionRest
I'm not sure about public apologies on behalf of other people as far as the motivation for them.
Sonny Perdue
PeopleMotivationSureFarPublic
The beginnings of my studies also came to me from my father, as well as from the Rabbinical Judge of our town. But they were preceded by three tutors under whom I studied, one after the other, from the time I was three and a half till I turned eight and a half.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
FatherTimeMeJudgeThreeWell
What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?
Roy Rogers
NatureButterflyGardenWithout
In judging other people's work, particularly short stories, I have noticed how novice writers tell the readers everything about their characters in the first paragraphs, disclose their motives, reveal their recent activities and their future intentions.
Ruth Rendell
WorkFuturePeopleShortJudging
Once upon a time, about 10 years ago, I thought maybe I could write a mystery series about a midwife in Elizabethan England. I had an elaborately convoluted title and an elaborately convoluted plotline, and at that point I got stupendously bored.
Deborah Harkness
TimeThoughtMysteryWriteBored
There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.
William Henry Harrison
NaturePowerExerciseFeelingsMore
The Department of Energy made an investment that failed, and it got raked over the coals for that failed investment. This is ridiculous. The fact of the matter is, the government should be making a lot of risky investments, the majority of which are likely to fail.
Peter Diamandis
GovernmentEnergyInvestmentMatter
The most compelling evidence for God's existence is Christ. If God does not exist, then Christ was the biggest fool who ever lived.
Peter Kreeft
GodFoolExistenceEvidenceLived
When you don't have accountability, there's no limit to the things that people will say. One of the restraints on the vitriol and the filth that so often is part of the American political debate is that candidates have to stand by their ads.
Sheldon Whitehouse
PeopleAccountabilityStandPolitical
Pinkville was called Pinkville because in the military maps, it was shaded a bright kind of shimmering pink, which signified what was called on the maps a 'built up' area, which was extremely misleading - 'built up' only meant there were little villages and it wasn't just desolate paddy land or unpopulated.
Tim O'Brien
PinkKindBrightLandMilitaryUp
God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.
Rihanna
GodYouSayWayOutThings
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