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I know that when Terry and I were together, 10 years ago, he did not appreciate it when people would ask him what it is like being partnered with a celebrity. Precisely because it suggested that he had no value. Armistead Maupin
Together People Value Would Had He Like Know Him Because Terry Were Years Years Ago Celebrity Did Precisely Being Ask Suggested Appreciate
I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction. Armistead Maupin
Tend Shelter Fiction Prefer
I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short. Armistead Maupin
Life Youth Mistake Yourself People Damn Too Out Feared Someone Could Make Been Short Loving
I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are speaking it. Some things can be said in fiction that can never be said in memoir. Armistead Maupin
Truth You Easier Claiming Memoir Memoirs Some Some Things Tend Through Write Never Said Always Get Fiction Speaking Things
Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun. Armistead Maupin
Love Like Blind Said Always Were Braille Much Fun
Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man. Arnold Bennett
Man Culture Old Approximately He Sin Supposed Read Surely Does Exist Very Wonder Person Being Social Old Man Average Who
Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity. Arnold Bennett
Money More Vastly Without Than Little Ingenuity Much Little Money Profitable Amusing
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life. Arnold Bennett
Happiness Life Be Happy Happy Challenge Satisfied Possibly Paramount Some Take No-One He Failed Idea Feels Affairs Up Chiefly Effort After Full Who Satisfaction Honest
The moment you're born you're done for. Arnold Bennett
You Born Done Moment
Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it. Arnold Bennett
Job Husband Husbands Entire Give Fail Attention Being Cannot Many Why
We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities. Arnold Bennett
Time Best Value Sense Way Best Way Various Divide Activities Need
To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists. Arnold Bennett
Truth Soul Experience Sometimes Matter Living Insight Fact Dead Brain Artist Artists Flash Where Which Transient Held Granted Moments Sudden Serve
The president of General Motors was in a foul humor. Arthur Hailey
Humor President General General Motors Motors Foul
I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life. Arthur Hailey
Life Real Life Think Drawn Invented Real Anybody Really
I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning. Arthur Hailey
Education Learning Go Yes Did Want Loved
Long afterward, many would remember those two days in the first week of October with vividness and anguish. Arthur Hailey
Remember Long First Those Would Anguish Week Days October Afterwards Many Two
When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before. Arthur Hailey
History Travel People Writing Met Before Able Some Uncovered Also Been Discovered Began Did Which Fascinating
The main advantage of the omniscient approach is that it's the easiest to handle. That's the major reason so many writers select it. Arthur Herzog
Omniscient Approach Easiest Select Writers Main Advantage Major Handle Reason Many
The universal narrator knows all and can enter a character's head any time he chooses. Arthur Herzog
Time Character Enter He Head Knows Narrator Any Chooses Universal
It's also possible to have two third person singular points of view, as represented by two characters through whose eyes the story is told in alternating chapters, say. Arthur Herzog
Eyes Chapters Say Possible Characters Through Points Also Singular Person Story View Whose Two Third
But if two's company, three's a crowd - and that demands the omniscient point of view. Arthur Herzog
Three Omniscient Crowd Point Point Of View Demands View Company Two
But whatever the POV, and the difficulty of forcing the action into a particular frame, stay within it. Arthur Herzog
Forcing Whatever Action Difficulty Frame Stay POV Particular Within
Vesco was always on the trail in search of money. Arthur Herzog
Money Always Trail Search
Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means. Arthur Koestler
Politics History Old Other Relatively Rule Possible Critical Points Fair End Than Spaces Justifies Breathing Old One Turning Turning Points Means
I'm an aesthetic empiricist. If you like something, it doesn't matter who made it. There really is no objective standard other than your own taste. You develop your own tastes, you find things that do or do not fit your tastes, and therefore are or are not 'good.' Whether they have been labeled as produced by the right person is another matter. Arthur Phillips
Good You Right Person Matter Made Own Other Find Objective Something Develop Like Another Aesthetic Been Fit Labeled Than Person Taste Tastes Whether Produced Really Your Standard Who Therefore Right Things
The memoir industry is, what's the word? Under regulated. I think it needs to be pruned. If there are too many books right now and the market for readers is shrinking, I think we can get rid of many of the memoirs. Another memoir should be awfully well justified before it gets published. Arthur Phillips
Needs Word Before Think Too Market Books Memoir Memoirs Well Industry Readers Another Get Gets Justified Should Rid Many Now Shrinking Published Right
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