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"The house kept its own time, like the old-fashioned grandfather clock in the living room. People who happened by raised the weights, and as long as the weights were wound, the clock continued ticking away. But with people gone and the weights unattended, whole chunks of time were left to collect in deposits of faded life on the floor."
"Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity."
"Running taught me to have faith in my skills as a writer. I learned how much I can demand of myself, when I need a break, and when the break starts to get too long. I known how hard I am allowed to push myself."
"I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz bar. There was not enough time to write and I didn't know how to write novels. Therefore, I made written collages of aphorisms and rags."
"Now I've gone for too long Living like I'm not alive So I'm going to start over tonight Beginning with you and I"
"The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second."
"A man does not please long when he has only species of wit."
"We pardon as long as we love."
"Men would not live in society long if they were not each others dupes."
"As long as we love, we can forgive."
"A man seldom finds people unthankful, as long as he remains in a condition of benefiting them further."
"The mind cannot long play the heart's role."
"We forgive just so long as we love."
"It's okay, Chancellor, you can touch them. Sometimes I just strip down to a tank top and stare at these guns in front of a mirror all day long."
"Countries trade with each other - or to be more precise people buy and sell from each other across frontiers - because that is the way to advance their interests. We do not need to beg people to trade with us - as long as we have something that people want, of a quality they expect and at a price they are prepared to pay."
"I'm not a perfectionist by a long shot, but self-doubt is a large part of my creative process."
"The past is what makes the present coherent, and the past will remain horrible for exactly as long as we refuse to assess it honestly."
"I don't know, now, when I first looked at Hella and found her stale, found her body uninteresting, her presence grating. It seemed to happen all at once—I suppose that only means that it had been happening for a long time."
"Social Security is the foundation stone of that kind of retirement security. It not only needs to be strengthened in order to make sure it's there for younger baby boomers and Generations X and Y, but it probably needs to be strengthened and expanded because the retirement benefits now being offered by most employers are not sufficient to support middle-income Americans in their long years of retirement."
"I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation."
