Kam Williams Quotes
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
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Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.
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Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
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Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.
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Being famous has changed a lot, because now there's so many outlets, between magazines, TV shows, and the Internet, for people to stalk and follow you. We created the monster.
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All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.
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I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.'
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Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.
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It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?
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Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.
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As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.
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I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.
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The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't just 'Here's the facts - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.' It's how you tell it.
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Suzhou is an ancient city full of old gardens that are very famous in China. It is very beautiful. Plus, I met my boyfriend there!
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I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture.
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I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.
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My most famous commercial was for Fruit Of the Loom underwear. I took a lot of razzing from my classmates.
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If anyone besides famous people knew what it was like to be a famous person, they would never want to be famous.
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Literature seemed to be everything then. People looked to it for the strength to live, for guidance, for revelation.
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The same is true of ranking him thus against any work of literature. [Bob Dylan] has been made, through no fault of his own, the object of odious tokenism.
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I think every school in the world should have a sports program.
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Moriarty is arguably the most famous super-villain in terms of literature.
