Notable American Women is a weird nougat of a book that suggests Coetzee, Kafka, Beckett, Barthelme, O'Brien, Orwell, … - Padgett Powell

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Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.

Padgett Powell

Notable American Women is a weird nougat of a book that suggests Coetzee, Kafka, Beckett, Barthelme, O'Brien, Orwell, Paley, Borges-and none of them exactly. Finally you just have to chew it for its own private juice.

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Have you come over time to think that you know more now than you did when you were young, know less now than when young, know now there is so much more to know than you knew there was to know when young that it is moot whether you think you knew more then than now or less, or do you now know that you never knew anything at all and never will and only the bluster of youth persuaded you that you did or would?

Bluster, Know, Moot, Thinking, Young, Youth

I've had an addiction for a long time to the whole business of maximizing one's potential, what I call human activation. The vehicle for actualizing oneself is choice, options, seeking out the proper choices.

Addiction, Call, Choices, Long, Seeking, Time

Life is a sandwich of activity between two periods of bed-wetting.

Activity, Bed, Life, Periods, Sandwiches, Two

If you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have been something you weren’t, perhaps, or otherwise take liberties with your memory, what writer would you choose?

Liberties, Liberty, Memories, Perhaps, Take, Writing

That's part of fiction, creating a world better than the one you live in.

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J. Robbins

The fact of picking up an instrument and writing a song and expressing yourself publicly has a powerful political dimension.

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Harry Styles

Some of them are funny. Some of them are ridiculous. Some of them are annoying. I don't want to be one of those people that complains about the rumours. I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, "This isn't true!" It is what it is, I tend not to do that.

Complaining, Complains, Goes On, People, Rumours, Says

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are. Which leads me to my second point: writers do not write what they want, they write what they can.

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Alice Tisdale Hobart

Commerce unites; religion divides.

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Daniel De Leon