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Honesty is to truth as prow is to stern. Honesty appears first and truth appears last. The interval between varies in direct proportion to the size of...more

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Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists can't trust anything they haven't ...more

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I still don't know what sort of world this is, she thought, But whatever world we're in now, I'm sure this is where I will stay. Where we will stay. T...more

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Only by learning the truth—whatever that truth might be—could people be given the right kind of power.

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People have their own reasons for dying. It might look simple, but it never is. It's just like a rock. What's above ground is only a small part of it....more

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People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible...more

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Telling lies is a really terrible thing. These days, lies and silence are the two greatest sins in human society you might say. In reality, we tell lo...more

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Lies are terrible things. One could say that the greatest sins afflicting modern society are the proliferation of lies and silence. We lie through our...more

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It may well be that we can never fully adapt to our own deformities. Unable tofind a place inside ourselves for the very real pain and suffering that ...more

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No truth can cure the sadness we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness, can cure that sorrow. All we can do i...more

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Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start- the way a map that shows too much can sometimes be useless.

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This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or b...more

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When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it. That's what I think. It's just a form of sincerity.

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Ok I'm not so smart I'm working class. But it's the working class that keeps the world running and it's the working class that get exploited. What kin...more

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It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit.