"Maybe everything really does just have an expiration date--one that you can't see until she tells you she's leaving, and then she's gone."
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"There was nowhere they could have gone and they went there anyway."
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"We were never lovers, and we never will be, now. I do not regret that, however. I regret the conversations we never had, the time we did not spend together. I regret that I never told him that he made me happy, when I was in his company. The world was the better for his being in it. These things alone do I now regret: things left unsaid. And he is gone, and I am old."
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"When you're starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff that's gone before and the stuff that's influenced you, and you reach the ladle of your imagination into this bubbling stew pot of all of this stuff, and you pour it out. And that's where you start from."
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"He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him."
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"This is a book for every fiddler who has realized halfway through playing an ancient Scottish air that the Ramones "I Wanna Be Sedated" is what folk music is really all about, and gone straight into it."
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"Sexton: I think the whole world's gone mad. Death: Uh-uh. It's always like this. You probably just don't get out enough."
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"'Boldly going where hundreds have gone before' does not make headlines."
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"Most of what I want to try to do is continue to go places with fiction that I've never gone before, and tell stories I've never told before, and one of the problems you rapidly discover about fans is what fans want is the last thing they liked. They want more of that."
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"The king is gone but he's not forgotten"
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"Everything is minimal, and if it's over, it's over. We're abrupt with things: in and out. Especially if it's an overdub - it's gone. It does something that's not real."
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"All the things I used to count on to get my music out there - record companies, they're all gone. And radio stations, they're gone - they're completely controlled by the government. If they're not controlled by the government, they're controlled by a programmer who's controlled by the government. Mainstream radio is suspect. You can't trust it."
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"Anyway, he's gone. Which, as you know, is how I like my men."
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"When the creator of the show is gone, the actors end up being the people who have been there the longest."
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"I’m sorry for everything.” Then he turns and pushes back into the woods, and he’s gone."
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"Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone"
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"After fifty most of the bullshit is gone."
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"I haven't ever gone to any Mensa meetings."
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"The contemporary memoir is playing an important role in at least just bringing certain relationships out into the open in American society, and also it's a place where the novel of development, the novel of consciousness, has gone."
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"The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours."
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