There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Maya Angelou

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You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

Jessica Mitford

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The job of the writer is to take a close and uncomfortable look at the world they inhabit, the world we all inhabit, and the job of the novel is to make the corpse stink.

Walter Mosley

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What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.

Jacques Derrida

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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

John Berger

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The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning and inhibit clarity.

Bill Watterson

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DWIGHT:

Stay smart. Stay cool. It's time to prove to you're friends that you're worth a damn.
Sometimes that means dying.
Sometimes it means killing a whole lot of people.

Frank Miller

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She doesn't quite chop his head off.
She makes a Pez dispenser out of him.

Frank Miller

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Hello, I'm Shellie's new boyfriend and I'm out of my mind.
If you so much as talk to her or even think her name, I'll cut you in ways that'll make you useless to a woman.

Frank Miller

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Mrs. Landingham, does the President have free time this morning?"

"The President has nothing but free time, Toby. Right now he's in the residence eating Cheerios and enjoying Regis and Kathie Lee. Should I get him for you?"

"Sarcasm's a disturbing thing coming from a woman of your age, Mrs. Landingham."

"What age would that be, Toby?"

"Late twenties?"

"Atta boy.

Aaron Sorkin

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