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Of course it was painful, and there were times when, emotionally, I just wanted to chuck it all. But pain seems to be a precondition for this kind of ...more

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Something will work out tomorrow, I thought. And if not, then tomorrow I'll do some thinking. Ob—la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on.

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I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the m...more

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I think of human existence as being like a two-story house. On the rst oor people gather together to take their meals, watch television, and talk. e s...more

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I myself, as I’m writing, don’t know who did it. The readers and I are on the same ground. When I start to write a story, I don’t know the conclusion ...more

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If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there’s salvation in life. Even if you can’t get together with that person.

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In the novelist's profession, as far as I'm concerned, there's no such thing as winning or losing. Maybe numbers of copies sold, awards won, and criti...more

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Maybe that's why people don't like you. You make it obvious you don't care whether people like you or not. That makses some people angry.

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But in real life things don't go smoothly. At certain points in our lives, when we really need a clear-cut solution, the person who knocks at our door...more

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I dream, sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

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Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

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When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person that walked in. That's what the storm is all about.

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No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.

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This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope.

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People lose fifty million skin cells every day. The cells get scraped off and turn into invisible dust, and disappear into the air. Maybe we are nothi...more