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It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction.
This world, he thinks, contains just one masterpiece, and that is itself.
Probably in a parallel universe not far from here, I'm working for Nintendo.
I’m scared of the future. I’m scared of the past. I’m nervous at the moment.
Writers are so used to books being optioned and then the movie never happens.
I added 'writers' to my list of people not to trust. They make everything up.
We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.
But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.
We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely.
Women, O, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words & hold it up.
Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible.
Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.
What is "poker"? A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars.
She has to lose her pre-Copernican view of a universe revolving around herself.
Go to hell, Willy, our souls eat poetry, but one has seven deadly sins to feed!
Memories are their own descendents masquerading as the ancestors of the present.
I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.
Courage is the highest quality for a soldier, but technology is a fine substitute.
Taro taught me that people respect spirit, but even cowards don't respect cowards.
Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right.
To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom.
War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.
If I want to act relaxed, it's going to take all my cunning, skill, and concentration.
I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome.
Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality
Whoever opined "Money can't buy you happiness" obviously had far too much of the stuff.
I think it's natural for youth to be drawn to newness: The world is still new for them.
I recently bought a cat, but took it back a day later because our personalities clashed.
Assured her I've never loved anyone except myself and have no intention of starting now.
I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can.
Beyond the Indian hamlet, upon a forlorn strand, I happened on a trail of recent footprints.
Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears.
As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens.
Two people who are a little bit deluded in each other's favour. That's what love is, isn't it?
A mountain you're plannin' on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty.
The best way to get out of debt is not to seek to get out of debt, but to seek to create wealth
Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you're afraid of them.
In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.
Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.
Little girls are like old cats. If they don't like you nothing on Earth will make them pretend to.
I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.
Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience.
why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most
The her that lived in her looked out through her eyes, through my eyes, and at the me that lives in me.
All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.
If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term.
Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices.
I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.
People b'lief the world is built so an tellin em it ain't so caves the roofs on their heads'n'maybe yours.
'Y' is about the weakest letter of all. 'Y' can't make up its mind if it's a vowel or a consonant, can it?