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Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects.
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reading
writing
society
norms
politeness
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Stephen King |
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But are his needs any more shocking than the needs of any other animals and men? Are his deeds more outrageous than the deeds of the parent who drained the spirit from his child? The vampire may foster quickened heartbeats and levitated hair. But is he worse than the parent who gave to society a neurotic child who became a politician? Is he worse than the manufacturer who set up belated foundations with the money he made by handing bombs and guns to suicidal nationalists? Is he worse than the distiller who gave bastardized grain juice to stultify further the brains of those who, sober, were incapable of progressive thought? (Nay, I apologize for this calumny; I nip the brew that feeds me.) Is he worse, then, than the publisher who filled ubiquitous racks with lust and death wishes? Really, no, search your soul, lovie--is the vampire so bad?
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prejudice
politics
society
norms
vampire
horror
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Richard Matheson |
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8af726b
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The trick for introverts is to honor their styles instead of allowing themselves to be swept up by prevailing norms.
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self-awareness
success
norms
self-esteem
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Susan Cain |
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4aeb326
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No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries.
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norms
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Thomas Sowell |
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efc45e6
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Trying to imagine , who found indecorous, at a London performance of --to which in fact he was once taken. Trying to imagine the same for a time-transported --who during his first visit to Europe was even shocked by the profusion of naked statues.
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lenny-bruce
nathaniel-hawthorne
puritanism
norms
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David Markson |