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The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James. James won, and it split literature into two streams. But it's a totally false dichotomy.


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is like selling loose Cuban cigars like Newports,
tryna...
FRIDA R. The only good ideas are the ones I can take credit for.
R. STEVENS Don't get yourself arrested and make your day worse! If you need to vent, just smash something that'...
R. STEVENS Wasting sarcasm is a sin.
R. STEVENS Why is it OK to love without a reason, but anger requires justification?
R. STEVENS I'm NOT short. I prefer to think there is simply more space above my head for word balloons full of ...
R. STEVENS Ever heard Victoria's REAL secret? Too much support hurts.
R. STEVENS Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the pi...
R. KELLY I wouldn't mind dying - it's the business of having to stay dead that scares the shit out of me.
R. GEIS I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music.
R. KELLY I believe the work of art should change the existing visual, intellectual and aesthetical sense and ...
GOPAKUMAR R I am not a traditionalist, questioning the social condition of the society. To achieve this, I use V...
GOPAKUMAR R 'Trapped In The Closet' lives in a place on the earth on its own. It pays its own rent, it&#...
R. KELLY 'Trapped in the Closet' is pretty much forever. I've got a leash on this thing now. I...
R. KELLY I have always been infatuated with country music.
R. KELLY I have always been infatuated with country music. Country music tells stories, and I've always l...
R. KELLY Sin will take you farther than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay, and cost you m...
R ZACCHARIAS As a businessman, I saw club tracks as a new franchise that could be profitable for years to come. I...
R. KELLY Everywhere I go, from malls to restaurants to sold-out tours overseas and back, everywhere I've ...
R. KELLY I slept and I dreamed that life was all joy. I woke and saw that life was but service. I served and ...
R. TAGORE To be handed a lot of money is to be handed a glass sword, blade first.
R. BACH Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired.
R. GEIS & Whenn i Scratch my Nailss Down hisss baqqqq ; yourrr gonnahhh feel it.
JEANETTE R. Be a froot loop in a world full of cheerios :)
SANDRA R We are relentless.
We don't compromise grace.
But when we hunt, we're vicious.
FRIDA R. The person who's made for you is gonna love the good, bad, and ugly parts of you.
FRIDA R. She falls back like a dead weight. The red hair loosens from the hair band and spreads in the colorf...
PAT R Other kids could read, other kids could write, other kids could spell, they could do math. I felt li...
R. KELLY I belive I can fly, I believe I can touch the sky.
R. KELLY For every quote, there is one that challenges it.
R. ALISTAIR I started learning everybody's riffs, from Donny Hathaway to Jeffrey Osborne to James Ingram. Th...
R. KELLY I've called myself the Pied Piper, I've called myself the Weatherman, I've called myself...
R. KELLY I don't really know the story of the Pied Piper. I don't read stories, first of all. I just ...
R. KELLY We strive hard for excellence in the music, while striving even harder for change outside the music.
R-SWIFT I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or ...
R. KELLY When I think of musical geniuses, I think of Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson and Prince....
R. KELLY Everyone wants the fairy tale, but don’t forget there are dragons in those stories.
R. QUEEN The world is going crazy, Karl. And when the world is crazy, a sane man is never okay." from The Ber...
R. SHARENOW A true friend sees your tears of sadness,
And quickly turns them into tears of joy and laughte...
R. BENZADI