"You are young, and in love. Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived."
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"As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning."
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"People tend to find books when they are ready for them."
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"Are we human because we gaze at the stars or do we gaze at the stars because we are human?"
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"I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer."
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"My parents would frisk me before family events. Before weddings, funerals, bar mitzvahs, and what have you. Because if they didn't, then the book would be hidden inside some pocket or other and as soon as whatever it was got under way I'd be found in a corner. That was who I was...that was what I did. I was the kid with the book."
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"Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does... ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent."
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"There are a number of paths that lead to this place. I have been avoiding them for some small time, now."
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"He left the drapes open, watched the lights of the cars and of the fast food joints through the window glass, comforted to know there was another world out there, one he could walk to anytime he wanted."
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"There's this thing, they have in french: L'espirit d'escalier. The spirit of the stairway. I don't think we have a word for it in English. It means, well, the clever things to say that you only think to yourself when you're on the way out."
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"The problems with success, frankly, are infinitely preferable to the problems of failure."
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"The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies."
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"Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose."
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"It's like one of those dreams that changes you. You keep some of the dream forever, and you know things down deep inside yourself, because it happened to you, but when you go looking for details they kind of just slip out of your head."
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"I feel like I am involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell me the rules, and who smiles all the time."
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"It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people."
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"Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkable difficult to kill."
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"I sat in the dark and thought: There’s no big apocalypse. Just an endless procession of little ones."
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"Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter."
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"A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it."
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