"Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache."
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"People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk."
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"How much courage does it take to fire up your tractor and plow under a crop you spent six or seven years growing? How much courage to go on and do that after you've spent all that time finding out how to prepare the soil and when to plant and how much to water and when to reap? How much to just say, "I have to quit these peas. Peas are no good for me, I better try corn or beans."
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"I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami."
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"Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe."
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"Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are all sorts of opportunities to dip in. The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as in long swallows. Waiting rooms were made for books— of course! But so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines, and everyone’s favorite, the john. You can even read while you’re driving, thanks to the audiobook revolution. Of the books I read each year, anywhere from six to a dozen are on tape."
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"People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done."
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"Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?"
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"It had that comfortably sprung, lived-in look that library books with a lively circulation always get; bent page corners, a dab of mustard on page 331, a whiff of some reader's spilled after-dinner whiskey on page 468. Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us, how good stories abide, unchanged and mutely wise, while we poor humans grow older and slower."
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"Did you know that Dairy Queen ice cream is mostly bubbles?"
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"City life is no life for a country man; for such a man that life is a kind of damnation in itself."
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"I think most of us are fascinated by the macabre and by the weird and even the nastiness that comes along."
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"The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them."
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"I think that friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds."
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"A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures."
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"Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not."
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"God wiped snot out of his nose and that was you."
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"All you need to do is hold on tight...and believe."
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"Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity."
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"Hug and kiss whoever helped get you - financially, mentally, morally, emotionally - to this day. Parents, mentors, friends, teachers. If you're too uptight to do that, at least do the old handshake thing, but I recommend a hug and a kiss. 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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