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The reason authors almost always put a dedication on a book is, because their selfishness even horrifies themselves in the end.

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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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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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One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred pound Coke machine, one need worry about little else.

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You always know the truth, because when you cut yourself or someone else with it, there’s always a bloody show.

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Teaching school is like having jumper cables hooked to your brain, draining all the juice out of you.

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We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.

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A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again.

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Things conceived by minds and made by hands can never be quite the same, even if they try their best to be identical, because they're never the same f...more

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I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.

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People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for ...more