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Ron Carlson Quotes: In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In the university they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fact!
         

In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In the university they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fact!


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Idolatry is not simply worshiping a stone image; idolatry is any concept of God that reduces Him to less than who He really is.



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I always write about my own experiences, whether I've had them or not.



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Key to all fiction, long or short, is to remember that the wolfman did not want the moon.



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The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live.



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The writer is the person who stays in the room.



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The big secret is the ability to stay in the room.



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I'm not trying as a writer to be smart or to understand the inner workings of my narrator, I'm trying to survive the typing of this story.





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A very simple bad decision is to get into debt. And that is very expensive.



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