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Smart people often talk trash about happiness and worse than trash about books on happiness, and they have been doing so for centuries - just as long as other people have been pursuing happiness and writing books about it.

~Amy Bloom

Topics: About Been Books Centuries Doing Happiness Just Long Often Other People Pursuing Smart Smart People Talk Than Trash Worse Writing

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The real problem with happiness is neither its pursuers nor their books; it's happiness itself. Happiness is like beauty: part of its glory lies in its transience.

~Amy Bloom

Topics: Beauty Books Glory Happiness Itself Lies Like Neither Nor Part Problem Real Real Problem

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Whenever you see shrinks on television, they're so clearly written by patients. They're either idealized or they're demonized or they love their patients. All they ever think about is their patients.

~Amy Bloom

Topics: About Clearly Either Ever Love Patients See Shrinks Television Think Whenever Written You

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I learned how to write television scripts the same way I have learned to do almost everything else in my entire life, which is by reading.

~Amy Bloom

Topics: Almost Almost Everything Else Entire Entire Life Everything Everything Else How Learned Life Reading Same Scripts Television Way Which Write I Have Learned

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The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge.

~Amy Bloom

Topics: Challenge Elegant Fierce Great Great Pleasure Me Pleasure Short Short Stories Stories Writing

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If you're an American reader, you can love short stories the way other Americans love baseball; this is our game, people! We have more than two hundred years of know-how and knack, of creativity.

~Amy Bloom

Topics: American Baseball Creativity Game Hundred Hundred Years Knack Love More Other Our People Reader Short Short Stories Stories Than Two Way Years You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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