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Famous Quotes By John L'Heureux

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Sometimes, in that darkness, there is a single act of love, some selfless gesture, an aspiration, and we see that it's not been all waste, all hopeless, and we can ... well ... go on. — John L'Heureux

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Obscenities are too often used for shock value, as a kind of shorthand for real expression of emotion. You've got to scale down your monstrosities. A scream is not a discovery. — John L'Heureux

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What a strange thing it is to recognize a sound like the shriek of a wounded animal, when you've never heard the shriek of a wounded animal. — John L'Heureux

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Nothing on earth in fiction is less interesting than characters under the influence of alcohol. — John L'Heureux

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Plot does not simply move with time, but spreads out conceptually in metaphorical space. — John L'Heureux

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You must get beyond divertissement, sketch, anecdote, the interesting moment. You must get to the mystery of human personality. What is the line of the story that leads us to a point where we see or intuit something we haven't before? — John L'Heureux

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On the other hand, who would be a more dedicated gay-basher than a gay school board member? look at congress. — John L'Heureux

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Uninvited criticism is insult. — John L'Heureux

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Using language like jungle growth isn't the solution to telling a story. — John L'Heureux

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A story is about a single moment in a character's life when a definitive choice is made, after which nothing is the same. — John L'Heureux

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There's something about a parenthesis in fiction that puts one off, saying, "It's me, moi, jumping in now." — John L'Heureux

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A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience ... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer distorts reality in the interest of a larger truth. — John L'Heureux

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Our salvation never comes in the form we would have chosen. — John L'Heureux

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Let good people sin. Give virtue to rotters. — John L'Heureux