"...maybe the world needs a cadre of smartasses to liven things up, who knows?"
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"As always at these times when he felt really in need of God the front of his mind was serene, but the deeper part, where faith did constant battle with doubt, was terrified that there would be no answer."
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"I've spread my legs in the backseat in a creative sense quite a few times."
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"Dead fields under a November sky, scattered rose petals brown and turning up at the edges, empty pools scummed with algae, rot, decomposition, dust."
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"he looked to her like an absurd twentieth-century Hamlet, an indecisive figure so mesmerized by onrushing tragedy that he was helpless to divert its course or alter it in any way."
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"Time heals all wounds."
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"Terrible thing to live in fear. Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won't have to be afraid all the time."
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"You can see the goldenrod, that most tenacious and pernicious and beauteous of all New England flora, bowing away from the wind like a great and silent congregation."
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"The universe (he said) offers a paradox too great for the finite mind to grasp. As the living brain cannot conceive of a nonliving brain — although it may think it can — the finite mind cannot grasp the infinite."
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"The scariest moment is always just before you start."
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"Time's the thief of memory"
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"Dreams age faster than dreamers."
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"But there's one thing I'm sure about. An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this."
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"No matter how many times you shake it the last drop always ends up in your pants"
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"Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings."
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"Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy."
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"Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children."
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"Successful rebellions always begin in secret."
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"It's funny how close the past is, sometimes. Sometimes it seems as if you could almost reach out and touch it. Only who really wants to?"
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"She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog."
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