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To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction. ↗

— Chaim Potok

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'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger. ↗

— Terry Prachett

#been #cheeseburger #come #could #easily

Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#complicated #i #intellectually #me #nostalgia

What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#art #interests #just #life #longer

The fact is that even art is subject to fashion. ↗

— Hugo Pratt

#even #fact #fashion #subject

An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of all his subjects. ↗

— Orson Pratt

#calculated #established #good #government #happiness

Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved. ↗

— Orson Pratt

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The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#being #certain #essayist #fantasy #follow

The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties? ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#criminal #criminal penalties #decision #issue #just

Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word. ↗

— Willard Van Orman Quine

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