"If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you."
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"Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym."
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"If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library."
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"What if I fall?', Tim cried. Maerlyn laughed. 'Sooner or later, we all do."
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"Love isn't soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close."
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"Yes, I’ve made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with the thought of being paid for it...I have written because it fulfilled me. ... I did it for the pure joy of the things. And if you can do it for joy, you can do it forever."
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"Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in."
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"As for the end of the universe…I say let it come as it will, in ice, fire, or darkness. What did the universe ever do for me that I should mind its welfare?"
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"I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?"
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"It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating."
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"Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life."
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"and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure."
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"The devil's voice is sweet to hear."
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"We are going to fight. We are going to be hurt. And in the end, we will stand."
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"Are you sure self-pity is a luxury you can afford, Jack?"
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"When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest."
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"I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright."
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""Am I weird?" "Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird.""
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"Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s."
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"Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work."
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