Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
I have a lot of blurring between fiction and non-fiction in so many of my works. For example, my first novel, 'When Nietzsche Wept,' has a great deal of non-fiction in it. I didn't create many characters at all. Almost all of them are historical characters that actually existed.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
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One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
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I'm not on the radio all day long. I'm not on TV.
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It's a quirk of mine; I love neat garages.
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I'm a big yachting fan.
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There are two strains, I think, in American playwriting, of importance. One is traditional narrative realism, which is definitely my strain, and then the other great contribution is American musical theater, which is a whole other kettle of fish.
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I have a lot of blurring between fiction and non-fiction in so many of my works. For example, my first novel, 'When Nietzsche Wept,' has a great deal of non-fiction in it. I didn't create many characters at all. Almost all of them are historical characters that actually existed.
