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... a woman who has been a nun is never anything else.
The world is a possibility if only you'll discover it.
I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars.
Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.
The challenge is to write about real things magically.
A man will never know a woman until he knows her work.
Not everyone writes well from a child's point of view.
You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.
Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.
Cruelty isn't a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.
Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
I wonder what the difference is between love and lust.
History is too important to be left to the historians.
In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.
Going for character: why not now, and where you stand?
We live in a world where bulk is equated with quality.
My mind is like a gyre, and odd juxtapositions happen.
Fundamentalism isn't about religion, it's about power.
Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
Where you have nothing, there you should want nothing.
Quality rather than quantity distinguishes the master.
There is nothing worse than an enemy with imagination.
Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.
The radio comes back even louder than you remember it.
My own personal experience has become more first-hand.
Losers blame their parents; Failures blame their kids.
I can't sit through dinner with somebody I don't like.
Watching 'The Jeremy Kyle Show' is my guilty pleasure.
I think the sixties must have been quite a lot of fun.
Being rich has never stopped anyone from being greedy.
He brushed my tears from my face. "How did I find you?
Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.
I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
...He was just scraps of words and dislocated phrases.
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
No amount of intelligence can save you from stupidity.
Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.
Fiction is a lie that is told in the service of truth.
Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.
I don't read the Sunday papers; or the dailies, either
American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot
Political doesn't necessarily mean you have an agenda.
It was not a house where secrets could be kept easily.
I don't want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
With four? Doing a little... Addition? Multiplication?
Take a person’s memories, and you change who they are.
My skepticism is strong, but my curiosity is stronger.
Never judge a man's actions until you know his motives