"I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle."
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"she was beautiful and seemingly quite intelligent, what with her pentameter search system. There wasn't a reason in the world not to find her appealing."
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"If I used being busy as an excuse not to run, I'd never run again. I have only a few reasons to keep on running, and a truckload of them to quit."
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"We knew exactly what we wanted in each other. And even so, it ended. One day it stopped, as if the film simply slipped off the reel."
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"Somewhere in his body--perhaps in the marrow of his bones--he would continue to feel her absence."
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"Waves of thought are stirring. In a twilight corner of her consciousness, one tiny fragment and another tiny fragment call out wordlessly to eachother, their spreading ripples intermingling."
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"I can't build a simple shelf. I have no idea how to change an oil filter on a car. I can't even stick a stamp on an envelope straight. And I'm always dialling the wrong number. But I have come up with a few original cocktails that people seem to like."
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"I generally concentrate on work for three or four hours every morning. I sit at my desk and focus totally on what I’m writing. I don’t see anything else, I don’t think about anything else."
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"And everywhere, infinite options, infinite possibilities. An infinity, and at the same time, zero. We try to scoop it all up in our hands, and what we get is a handful of zero. That's the city"
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"Things pass us by. Nobody can catch them. That's the way we live our lives."
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"The unwaking world was as hushed as a deep forest."
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"Not that we were incompatible: we just had nothing to talk about."
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"Everybody's born with some different thing at the core of their existence. And that thing, whatever it is, becomes like a heat source that runs each person from the inside. I have one too, of course. Like everybody else. But sometimes it gets out of hand. It swells or shrinks inside me, and it shakes me up. What I'd really like to do is find a way to communicate that feeling to another person."
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"Her pupils have taken on a lonely hue, like grey clouds reflected in a calm lake."
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"This was never any place I was meant to be. This isn’t a place for me."
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"Give yourself five minutes to consider how you can turn a miserable situation to your benefit and that light bulb is going to click on."
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"It's like a kid standing at the window watching the rain."
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"Of course life frightens me sometimes. I don't happen to take that as the premise for everything else though. I'm going to give it hundred percent and go as far as I can. I'll take what I want and leave what I don't want. That's how I intend to live my life, and it things go bad, I'll stop and reconsider at that point. If you think about it, an unfair society is a society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit."
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"I always write my novels with music (I don't listened to the music seriously.) Music seems to encourage me."
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"Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless."
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