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#1

“The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.”
― Frank Lloyd Wright

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#2

“He ran knowing the best water lay ahead.”
― Christopher Meeks, The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea

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#3

“Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being "false," "untrue," yet good fiction provides more truth about the world, about life, and even about the reader, than can be found in non-fiction.”
― Clark Zlotchew

tags: 1950s, adolescent-angst, adventure, cuba, deep-south, havana, high-seas, homophobia, love, navy, old-days, political-intrigue, prostitution, racism, rite-of-passage, savannah, segregation, sex, sexism, ships, short-stories, short-story-collection, stories, unrequited-love

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#4

“A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.”
― Lorrie Moore

tags: novels, short-stories, writing

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#5

“Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: short-stories

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#6

“Short fiction seems more targeted - hand grenades of ideas, if you will. When they work, they hit, they explode, and you never forget them. Long fiction feels more like atmosphere: it's a lot smokier and less defined.”
― Paolo Bacigalupi

tags: long-fiction, short-fiction, short-stories, short-story

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#7

“Kids believe in Santa; adults believe in childhood.”
― Cate Kennedy, Dark Roots

tags: childhood, santa, short-stories

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