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A Writer's Craft: Multi-Genre Creative Writing

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Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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The author of the diary and the diary itself are, of course, imaginary. Nevertheless it is clear that such persons as the writer of these notes not only may, but positively must, exist in our society, when we consider the circumstances in ...more

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“There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it.”
― Ranata Suzuki

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“Literature was not born the day when a boy crying “wolf, wolf” came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels; literature was born on the day when a boy came crying “wolf, wolf” and there was no wolf behind him. Consciousness”
― Stanislas Dehaene, Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts

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“One of the beauties of Jungle Law is that punishment settles all scores. There is no nagging afterward.”
― Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

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“they just didn't know”
― Thornton W. Burgess, Old Mother West Wind

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“If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.”
― Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers

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