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While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice.

~Andrew Motion

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There are two perspectives on the oil sands. You have companies that want to make it the next Saudi Arabia. The other is that it's a transitional resource to a low-carbon economy, and to regard it as anything else is to drain the continent's financial resources.

~Andrew Nikiforuk

Topics: Anything Anything Else Arabia Companies Continent Drain Economy Else Financial Make Next Oil Other Perspectives Regard Resource Resources Sands Saudi Saudi Arabia Two Want You

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Novelists are no more moral or certain than anybody else; we are ideologically adrift, and if we are any good then our writing will live in several places at once. That is both our curse and our charm.

~Andrew O'Hagan

Topics: Any Anybody Anybody Else Both Certain Charm Curse Else Good Live Moral More Novelists Once Our Places Several Than Then Will Writing

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In many campaigns, one candidate or another is asked to answer for comments he or she made in the past. The answer is usually gibberish - 'That was a long time ago,' or 'I was trying to say something else.'

~Andrew Rosenthal

Topics: Another Answer Asked Campaigns Candidate Comments Else He He Or She In The Past Long Long Time Long Time Ago Made Many Past Say She Something Something Else Time Trying

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Movies are as old as psychoanalysis. So if I were to put you or anyone else on a couch and say, 'Tell me your favorite movies,' it would be a way of psychoanalyzing you.

~Andrew Sarris

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I do think that Americans do not understand that things are done differently in other parts of the world and that the other ways people do things are equally accurate ways to do things. Someone else just came up with something different.

~Andrew Sean Greer

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I have to get three pages done every day, and there's usually a point about 150 pages in where everything falls apart, where all the plans are for naught. The book has become something else, and I have a nervous breakdown, and then I submit to what the book has become, and I keep going, and that's a terrible and then a great time.

~Andrew Sean Greer

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'The Story Of A Marriage' was initially a short story I wrote, and before that, it was a family story. It was a story that a relative of mine told me about herself in the '50s, and it was a story that no one else in my family believes, and it might not be true.

~Andrew Sean Greer

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I would have had an easier life if I were straight, but I would not be me. And I now like being myself better than the idea of being someone else, someone who, to be honest, I have neither the option of being nor the ability fully to imagine.

~Andrew Solomon

Topics: Ability Being Being Myself Better Easier Else Fully Had Honest Idea Imagine Life Like Me Myself Neither Nor Now Option Someone Straight Than To Be Honest Were Who Would

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The worst mistake anyone can make is to perceive anyone else as lesser. The deeper you look into other souls - and writing is primarily an exercise in doing just that - the clearer people's inherent dignity becomes.

~Andrew Solomon

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