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I was not inside the bank. But I am still not the only witness.


Patty Hearst
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
Toni Morrison
Even the 'Negro' shows like 'Amos and Andy' and 'Beulah' are written largely by white writers - the better to preserve the stereotypes, I imagine.
Langston Hughes
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Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.
William Gibson
Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.
John Ruskin
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To act: that is what the writer would like to be able to do, above all. To act, rather than to bear witness. To write, imagine, and dream in such a way that his words and inventions and dreams will have an impact upon reality, will change people's minds and hearts, will prepare the way for a better world.
J. M. G. Le Clezio
Imagine that everything you are typing is being read by the person you are applying to for your first job. Imagine that it's all going to be seen by your parents and your grandparents and your grandchildren as well.
Tim Berners-Lee
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Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.
Gloria Steinem
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I love writing and can't imagine not being able to do it. I want an easy life and if it had been difficult I wouldn't be doing it. I do admire writers who do it even though it costs them.
Iain Banks
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I want to see the writers strike because the writers, god bless them, are the only true commies we have in Hollywood.
Ned Beatty
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We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'
Abraham Lincoln
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Our great American writers were all newspaper people.


John Gould
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Imagine spending seven years at MIT and research laboratories, only to find out that you're a performance artist.
Golan Levin
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My witness is the empty sky.


Jack Kerouac
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For me, it's more about being there, bearing witness to history, bearing witness to what's happening, what our country, the position our country is taking overseas. I want policy-makers to see the fruits of their decisions, basically, and to try and influence foreign policy.
Lynsey Addario
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I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.
Madeleine Albright
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You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills.


Lorrie Moore
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When I left SEIU, we had started this quality public service agenda to say to our members what I think the United Auto Workers learned: that quality is our only job security in the long run.
Andy Stern
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I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.
Harlan Coben
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I could imagine that boats sailing in harbors will only use electric engines. And then once they are out in the water they will use diesel.
Henrik Fisker
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