"There are really very few economies of scale in centralising or standardising advertising."
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"At nineteen, it seems to me, one has a right to be arrogant; time has usually not begun its stealthy and rotten subtractions. It takes away your hair and your jump-shot, according to a popular country song, but in truth it takes away a lot more than that."
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"Time is a face on the water."
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"I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present."
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"Want a Coke?” Abra asked. “Sugar solves lots of problems, that’s what I think."
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"You’d be surprised what a person can live with,” Dan said."
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"The exhilaration was hard to explain. It was a lonely feeling — a somehow melancholy feeling. He was outside; he passed on the wings of the wind, and none of the people beyond the brightly lighted squares of their windows saw him. They were inside, inside where there was light and warmth. They didn't know he had passed them; only he knew. It was a secret thing."
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"I'm convinced that FEAR is at the root, of all bad writing"
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"As a species we're fundamentally insane."
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"... don't let your elders and supposed betters tell you any different. Sure, you've never been to Paris. No, you never ran with the bulls at Pamploma. Yes, you're a pissant who had no hair in your armpits until three years ago - but so what? If you don't start out too big for your britches, how are you gonna fill 'em when you grow up? Let it rip regardless of what anybody tells you, that's my idea; sit down an smoke that baby."
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"Zombies are the new vampire."
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"I don't want to sound like an ad, a public service ad on TV, but the fact is if you can read, you can walk into a job later on. If you don't, then you've got, the Army, Iraq, I don't know, something like that. It's, it's not as bright. So, that's my little commercial for that."
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"Isn't it too bad that the great truths are all such lies."
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"The quiet, singing voice of the rose. The song that promised all might be well, all might be well, that all manner of things might be well."
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"There should be no telephone in your writing room, certainly no TV or videogames for you to fool around with. If there’s a window, draw the curtains or pull down the shades unless it looks out at a blank wall."
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"Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes."
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"Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good."
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"It's exciting and it's thrilling and it's not particularly threatening, because they're not overtly sexual. A lot of the physical side of it is conveyed in things like the vampire will touch her forearm or run a hand over skin, and she just flushes all hot and cold. And for girls, that's a shorthand for all the feelings that they're not ready to deal with yet."
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"There are a great many ways to commit suicide you know."
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"He removed his unvaluable valuables and dumped his shirt, pants, and skivvies into a letter slot."
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