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«If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not.»
Author: Anthony Burgess
(Critic, Man of letter, Novelist)
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corrupted, corruptibility, dealing, fiction writer, in a sense, mainly, Sex and, Shakespeare, themes, tremendous
«I've been singing since I was 5 years old. Not in-the-church-thing kind of way. I always made up music. Since I was a little girl. Improvisation was with me from the beginning. It drove my parents crazy. I would sing all the time. To anything. Television show themes. I loved to imitate the sounds.»
Author: Cassandra Wilson
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church music, drove, improvisation, little girl, television show, television shows, themes
«America is the world's living myth. There's no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame America for some local disaster. This is our function, to be character types, to embody recurring themes that people can use to comfort themselves, justify themselves and so on. We're here to accommodate. Whatever people need, we provide. A myth is a useful thing.»
Author: Don Delillo
(Novelist)
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accommodate, and so on, local, recur, recurring, themes, types
«They say great themes make great novels.. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.»
«Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes /love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself /and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others /should we call it ''joy''?»
Author: Andrea Dworkin
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crack, creek, creeks, flawless, Great River, heroism, imaginations, introduce, mutilate, mutilated, One half, render, spectacularly, subjugation, theme, themes
«The Soviet Union, which has complained recently about alleged anti-Soviet themes in American advertising, lodged an official protest this week against the Ford Motor Company's new campaign: 'Hey you stinking fat Russian, get off my Ford Escort.'»
Author: Dennis Miller
(Actor, Comedian)
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advertising campaign, alleged, American union, campaign, complained, escort, escorted, escorting, escorts, ford, Ford Motor, Ford Motor Company, get off, lodged, official, protest, recently, Russian, soviet, Soviet Union, stinking, themes, This Week
«I stick to simple themes. Love. Hate. No nuances. I stay away from psychoanalyst's couch scenes. Couches are good for one thing.»
Author: John Wayne
(Actor)
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couch, Couched, couches, couching, for one thing, nuance, nuances, psychoanalyst, Psychoanalysts, scenes, stick to, themes
«I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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Father, grave, gravely, meditated, meditating, old person, persons, suppose, themes
«Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.»
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