E. L. Doctorow Quotes
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.
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What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
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Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.
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I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.
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Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us it is sufficient if what we say can't be disproved or shown to be false.
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A cat only has itself.
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One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
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When I was a teenager, my idol was the Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff. He's the only person I've ever asked for an autograph.
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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Music my rampart, and my only one.
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Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
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Armies are not only for offensives.
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I only act in films where I've got an A-lister as my mentor.
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He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Wrestling is a hard sport, but it's only a sport.
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I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing.
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The perfect antidote to dark, cold and creepy is light, warm and cozy.
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I was in high school, and when you get to be 14, 15, you start to feel a little more like your own person so that you can assert your adulthood a little bit.
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.
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Never trust the food in a restaurant on top of the tallest building in town that spends a lot of time folding napkins.
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There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
