"He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood."
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"Remember in elementary school you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file from smallest to tallest? What is the logic in that? What, do tall people burn slower?"
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"You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or despair ... Come to it any way but lightly."
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"They were trying to run, trying to hide. But the rock would not hide them; the dead tree gave no shelter."
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"In the end, the wind takes everything, doesn't it? And why not? Why other? If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all."
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"What do you really want to know? Am I sorry for what I did? There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret. Not because I'm in here, but because you think I should be. I look back on the way I was. A young, stupid kid that committed that terrible crime. I want to talk to him. I want to try to talk some sense to him. Tell him the way things are. But I can't. That kid's long gone, and this old man is all that's left."
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"If you can remember all the accessories that go with your best outfit, the contents of your purse, the starting lineup of the New York Yankees or the Houston Oilers, or what label "Hang On Sloopy" by The McCoys was on, you are capable of remembering the differences between a gerund (verb form used as a noun) and a participle (verb form used as an adjective)."
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"I've spent my whole life doing some things because they were logical and not doing others because they were not. I've seen what happens when people act on intuition, or for illogical reasons. Sometimes the results are ludicrous and embarrassing; more often they are simply horrible. But here I am, just the same, behaving like a crackbrained crystal gazer."
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"No one ever really pays for betrayal in silver....The price of any betrayal always comes due in flesh."
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"And if there are no cars or planes, and if no one’s Uncle John is out in the wood lot west of town banging away at a quail or pheasant; if the only sound is the slow beat of your own heart, you can hear another sound, and that is the sound of life winding down to its cyclic close, waiting for the first winter snow to perform last rites."
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"If I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross out. I'm not proud."
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"Mornings belong to whatever is new; the current composition. Afternoons are for naps and letters."
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"stop now before i kill you a word to the wise from your friend PENNYWISE"
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"Sometimes [...] real love is silent as well as blind."
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"A good reputation is something that must be earned, yet can never be bought."
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"A product can be quickly outdated, but a successful brand is timeless."
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"Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure."
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"The idea for a novel is like a little tiny fire in a dark night. And, one by one, the characters come and stand around it and warm their hands."
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"The past is obdurate."
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"Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality."
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