"The low bird is not picked tenderly out of the dust by its fellows; rather, it is dispatched quickly and without mercy."
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"So what, ghosts can't hurt you. That's what I thought then."
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"Working on a new idea is kind of like getting married. Then a new idea comes along and you think, 'Man, I'd really like to go out with her.' But you can't. At least not until the old idea is finished."
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"I think that's what people most always do with the stuff they can't make out - just forget it."
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"And I wonder if there is really any point to what I'm doing, or what I'm supposed to make of a world where a man can get rich playing "let's pretend"
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"For a woman a man will do many things that he'd turn his back on in an instant when alone; things he'd back away from, nine times out of ten, even when drunk adn with a bunch of his friends egging him on."
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"Even at eleven, he had observed that things turned out right a ridiculous amount of the time."
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"That's the day's business. Thinking. Thinking and isolation, because it doesn't matter if you pass the time of day with someone or not; in the end, you're alone. He seemed to have put in as many miles in his brain as he had with his feet. The thoughts kept coming and there was no way to deny them."
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"It's only a little secret, but having a secret makes me feel better. Like a human being again."
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"I like to hang out clothes on windy days. Sometimes that's all I feel like. A sheet on a line."
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"...they came to see what happened to their town, to see if it was indeed lying burnt and bleeding. Many of them also came to die."
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"And suddenly it didn't seem to matter any more, nothing would matter if she could turn over, turn over and see the stars, turn over and look once and die."
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"Once, during the drinking phase, Wendy had accused him of desiring his own destruction but not possessing the necessary moral fiber to support a full-blown deathwish. So he manufactured ways in which other people could do it, lopping a piece at a time off himself and their family."
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"My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he had to be in charge of his problems."
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"But see that you get on. That's your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on."
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"She looks like the type that might freak out. It's something in the eyes, Frannie. It says if you shoot my sacred cows, I'll shoot yours."
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"They say that loving eyes can never see, but that's a fool's axiom. Sometimes, they see too much"
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"Never give a good politician time to pray."
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"Things come in three major degrees in the human experience, I think. There's good, bad, and terrible. And as you go down into progressive darkness towards terrible, it gets harder and harder to make subdivisions."
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"Ka works and the world moves on."
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