"I loved the sound of the words, even if I was not entirely sure what all of them meant."
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"Nobody actually looks like what they really are on the inside."
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"I suppose the point you grow up is the point you let the dreams go."
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"Nobody gets through life without losing a few things on the way."
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"This is how you can tell a real photographer: mostly, a real photographer does not say 'I wish I had my camera on me right now'. Instead a real photographer pulls out her camera and takes the photograph."
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"I do not permit affection or lack thereof to influence my actions. There is good, and there is evil. The good must be protected, the evil eradicated. I have shown you the triumph of evil as a caution."
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"As I wouldn't wear a costume, I couldn't imagine him wanting to wear one. And seeing that the greater part of my wardrobe is black (It's a sensible colour. It goes with anything. Well, anything black)[...]."
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"In Hollywood the man who cleans your pool is an actor. The man who sells you your copy of Variety is an actor. I don't think there's a real person left in the place."
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"They all do the same things. They may think their sins are original, but for the most part they are petty and repetitive."
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"Goodnight world. While I sleep, I hope you'll all continue to do whatever it is you do. Unless you murder sleeping authors. Don't do that."
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"Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity."
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"The only thing that kept me going was stories. Stories are hope. They take you out of yourself for a bit, and when you get dropped back in, you're different- you're stronger, you've seen more, you've felt more. Stories are like spiritual currency."
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"Truly, life is wasted on the living, Nobody Owens. For one of us is too foolish to live, and it is not I."
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"The right song can turn an emperor into a laughingstock, can bring down dynasties."
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"There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of un-hatched chicks."
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"I'm never, I hope, stupid enough to believe that Twitter or blogging or any of this stuff is a substitute for actually doing the work or writing a book."
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"The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography."
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"It was a perfectly normal gerbil. It appeared to be living in an exciting construction of cylinders, spheres and treadmills, such as the Spanish Inquisition would have devised if they'd had access to a plastics molding press."
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"I hope that this year, you make mistakes. If you do, then it means you have tried, learned, lived, pushed yourself, changed you and your world, and most importantly, you've done something."
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"And, selfish and scared, I wonder how much more he has to give."
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