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I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.

I make it a policy every election to only debate once, Democrats and Progressives. And I will say that the way that you have acted, very candidly, has been dishonorable in this entire campaign.

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.

I'm a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion.

In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.

In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter.

In Mexico, everything on the menu is the same dish. The only difference is the way it's folded.

I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.

In hindsight, I realized I could see into the future. Which is kind of like having premonitions of flashbacks.

In Land of Milk and Money, Anthony Barcellos mines rich family history to create a full-blooded tale that readers will find insightful, rewarding, and entertaining.

In economics, you always want to ask 'And then what?'

Interestingly, we have beaten the market quite handsomely over this time frame, although beating the market has never been our objective. Rather, we have consistently tried not to lose money and, in doing so, have not only protected on the downside but also outperformed on the upside.

In short stories there's more permission to be elliptical. You can have image-logic, or it's almost like a poem in that you can come to a lot of meanings within a short space.

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

In the 10 or so years since e-sourcing technology first made its way into grocers' procurement departments, the results secured have been remarkable: frequent double-digit savings in both direct and indirect categories, new process efficiencies, higher procurement contract compliance, dramatically lower savings leakage - and the list goes on.

I wouldn't mind dying for France, but not for Air France.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.

It's kind of funny. When I got my diagnosis - cancer - I said to myself, 'Why me?' And then, the other day, when I got the good news, I said the same thing.

It's magic. All of a sudden, the idea just pops up. Who knows how?

I would visualize things coming to me. It would just make me feel better. Visualization works if you work hard. That's the thing. You can't just visualize and go eat a sandwich.

It is absolutely beyond a shadow of a doubt that more firearms in a society actually cuts the amount of crime in that same society.

It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.

I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.

It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring—with immense, even startling power.

Marian Head is a true student of Tao. Her insightful and persuasive 'Wu-Wei' approaches for personal transformation reach our hearts with open invitation to join the 'soft' revolution and harmonious agreement for all.

Larry Grobel's interviews are informative and insightful without being pandering or intrusive. You get the sense at all times of both intelligence at work-the interviewee's and Grobel's-both inspired by the encounter.

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

Money will never make you happy if you are an unhappy person.

May all sentient beings be happy and free of suffering.

My films are about the little things that happen between people that are sometimes far more valuable and insightful than the big dramatic things that happen.

My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.

Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile.

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.

One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.

Now, they say that New Zealand is beautiful and I do not know -- because after 22 hours on a plane any landmass would be beautiful.

One's state of mind is three-quarters of what counts, so it has to be carefully nurtured if you want to do something great and lasting.

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.

Protect the downside. Worry about the margin of safety.

Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.

Religion is not something separate and apart from ordinary life. It is life - life of every kind viewed from the standpoint of meaning and purpose: life lived in the fuller awareness of its human quality and spiritual significance.

Sellers who've embraced social media are creating new opportunities that totally bypass traditional sales channels... It's about good selling - using all the tools that are available to you today.

Sheriff Knezovich's bill was poorly-written and not constitutional, according to many attorneys, including myself, that reviewed it. We want to go forward with something that's going to stand up to the scrutiny that all bills go under once they've been passed into law.

Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression.

Simplicity means the achievement of maximum effect with minimum means.

Q: Does this train stop at Brighton? A: I hope so or there's going to be a hell of a splash.