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Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.

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...so I think writers are made and not born. But what you choose to write is buried so deeply inside it's like lodestones inside you and sooner or lat...more

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There was nothing … and nothing … and then the car bumped up again. There was a muffled pop, the sound of a small pumpkin exploding in a microwave ove...more

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And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.

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Quiet people have the loudest minds.

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If you don’t have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?

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Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.

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Fiction is the truth inside a lie.

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Am I weird?""Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird.

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Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy.

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A successful marriage was a balancing act-that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was also dependent on a high tolerance for irritation.

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People who leave their drugs in a bathroom the guests use are just asking for trouble.

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Bill suited the action to the word, getting up and leaning over the handlebars and pumping the pedals at a lunatic rate. Looking at Bill's back, which...more

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When you're twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It's only when you get to twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect you've been looking at the map upside...more

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I have seen many cases like N. during the five years I've been in practice. I sometimes picture these unfortunates as men and women being pecked to de...more