"Just remember that Dumbo didn't need the feather; the magic was in him."
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"If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered."
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"A cat won't curry favor even if it's in their best interests to do so. A cat can't be a hypocrite. If more preachers were like cats, this would be a more religious country."
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"There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has felt at least a faint, morbid urge to jump. And anyone who has ever put a loaded pistol up to his head... All right, my point is this: even the most well-adjusted person is holding onto his or her sanity by a greased rope. I really believe that. The rationality circuits are shoddily built into the human animal."
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"Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again."
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"God grant me to SERENITY to accept what I cannot change the TENACITY to change what I may and the GOOD LUCK not to f*** up too often"
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"They were nice enough people and all, but there wasn't much love in them. Because they were too busy being afraid. Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear, just as plants didn't grow very well in a place where it was always dark."
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"The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting."
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"I don't mean that creative people are somehow finer, or more sensitive, and thus have finer, more sensitive nervous breakdowns - you can save that horseshit for the Sylvia Plath worshipers. It's just that creative people have creative breakdowns."
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"Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?...Sometimes he makes us live."
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"Don't let the sun go down without saying thank you to someone, and without admitting to yourself that absolutely no one gets this far alone."
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"And in the gunslinger's mind, those words echoed: You dare not."
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"Good description is a learned skill, one of the prime reasons why you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write a lot. It’s not just a question of how-to, you see; it’s also a question of how much to. Reading will help you answer how much, and only reams of writing will help you with the how. You can learn only by doing."
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"But I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I don’t think it’s in the stars, but I do believe that blood calls to blood and mind calls to mind and heart to heart."
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"The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone."
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"Men! She could not understand why so many women feared them. Hadn't the gods made them with the most vurnerable part of their guts hanging right out of their bodies, like a misplaced bit of bowel? Kick them there and they curled up like snails. Caress them there and their brains melted."
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"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."
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"Absence may or may not make the heart grow fonder, but it certainly freshens the eye."
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"May be she’ll learn something about what death really is, which is where the pain stops and the good memories begin. Not the end of life but the end of pain."
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"I think it's relatively easy for people to accept something like telepathy or precognition or teleplasm because their willingness to believe doesn't cost them anything. It doesn't keep them awake nights. But the idea that the evil that men do lives after them is unsettling."
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