"I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense."
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"We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will."
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"Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it."
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"People try to force things. It's disastrous. Just leave your mind alone. Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get out of the way."
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"The purpose of fiction is not to nail you to the ground as facts do, but to take you to the edge of the cliff and kick you off so you build your wings on the way down."
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"Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young."
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"Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more."
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"Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord."
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"I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion , now ."
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"Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds."
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"If you had your way you’d pass a law to abolish all the little jobs, the little things. But then you’d leave yourselves nothing to do between the big jobs and you’d have a devil of a time thinking up things to do so you wouldn’t go crazy. Instead of that, why not let nature show you a few things? Cutting grass and pulling weeds can be a way of life, son."
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"Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it."
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"He raged for hours. And the skeleton, ever the frail and solelmn philosopher, hung quietly inside, saying not a word, suspended like a delicate insect within a chrysalis, waiting and waiting."
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"Savory...that's a swell word. And Basil and Betel. Capsicum. Curry. All great. But Relish, now, Relish with a capital R. No argument, that' the best."
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"The river was mild and leisurely, going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for supper."
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"Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore."
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"Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!"
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"For it is a mad world and it will get madder if we allow the minorities, be they dwarf or giant, orangutan or dolphin, nuclear-head or water-conversationalist, pro-computerologist or Neo-Luddite, simpleton or sage, to interfere with aesthetics. The real world is the playing ground for each and every group, to make or unmake laws. But the tip of the nose of my book or stories or poems is where their rights end and my territorial imperatives begin, run and rule."
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"They crashed the front door and grabbed at a woman, though she was not running, she was not trying to escape. She was only standing, weaving from side to side, her eyes fixed upon a nothingness in the wall as if they had struck her a terrible blow upon the head. Her tongue was moving in her mouth, and her eyes seemed to be trying to remember something, and then they remembered and her tongue moved again: "Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out."
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"He had never liked October. Ever since he had first lay in the autumn leaves before his grandmother's house many years ago and heard the wind and saw the empty trees. It had made him cry, without a reason. And a little of that sadness returned each year to him. It always went away with spring. But, it was a little different tonight. There was a feeling of autumn coming to last a million years. There would be no spring. ("The October Game")"
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