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Long fiction is wonderful and you can lose yourself in it as a reader and as a writer, but short stories don't allow the same kind of immersion. Often the best stories hold you back and make you witness them. This may be one of the reasons some people reject the form. That and the fact that they are harder work to read. A story will not let you get comfortable and settle in. It is like a stool that is so small that you must always be aware of sitting.

Isobelle Carmody's Popular Quotes

Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist's only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life.

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If human lives be, for their very brevity, sweet, then beast lives are sweeter still...

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‎It is better to pursue a hopeless hope than to give in to black despair.

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Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness.

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She's forgetting,' Ellen said to Jack, plumping herself down on a chair. 'All of her life is leaking out of her. Soon there will be nothing left.

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That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying.

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Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.

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The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.

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The worst predijudice is unknowing. We think we treat others as equals, but, in our deepest heart, we regard ourselves as superior. In part, this is …

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