"Reading in bed can be heaven, assuming you can get just the right amount of light on the page and aren't prone to spilling your coffee or cognac on the sheets."
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"Few if any seemed to have grasped the Principle of Reality; new knowledge leads always to yet more awesome mysteries. Greater physiological knowledge of the brain makes the existence of the soul less possible yet more probable by the nature of the search."
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"the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket."
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"And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings."
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"Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation."
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"Don't give me what I ask for, give me what I need."
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"Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two."
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"Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle."
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"A library is a place where you can live a thousand lives. So why are you waiting when you could be living? Visit your library today."
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"Life turns on a dime. Sometimes towards us, but more often it spins away, flirting and flashing as it goes: so long, honey, it was good while it lasted, wasn’t it?"
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"You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you."
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"God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live."
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"Talent is never static. It's always growing or dying."
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"God turned out to be a bunch of bad little kids playing interstellar Xbox. Isn't that funny?"
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"Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of each small one. From the big ones you get novels. A little talent is a nice thing to have if you want to be a writer, but the only real requirement is the ability to remember the story of every scar. Art consists of the persistence of memory."
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"Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different."
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"But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love."
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"As a young man just beginning to publish some short fiction in the t&a magazines, I was fairly optimistic about my chances of getting published; I knew that I had some game, as the basketball players say these days, and I also felt that time was on my side; sooner or later the best-selling writers of the sixties and seventies would either die or go senile, making room for newcomers like me."
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"How to Draw a Picture (XII) Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life."
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"you must not come lightly to the blank page."
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