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There is a small window of opportunity for freckled girls to tan.
At 17, all I wanted was to be a famous junky. Like all my heroes.
History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant
I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.
Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.
Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field.
People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers.
Garp drank the beer and wondered if everything was an anticlimax.
Catholics don't scream about Jesus, they scream about the bishop.
The Internet doesn't like you to learn too much about explosives.
The purpose of life is to get as close as we can to other people.
Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published.
They were written in the early '90s when I was strapped for cash.
Most of the people who have complaints with me aren't reading me.
There is nothing worse than the ambitions of a talentless person.
Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray.
I want to keep looking at ways to stride forward with positivity.
Somewhere deep within the marrow of our marrow, we were the same.
Once you figure out what's best for the story, take out the rest.
If you're gonna do something weird, just have one thing be weird.
There are certain prehistoric things that swim beyond extinction.
Iggy Pop is God, if God looked half that good with his shirt off.
I'm a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve.
Thats what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.
There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.
In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.
Man's love is of man's life a thing apart;Girls aren't like that.
My dream had become my reality: my old life was a discarded husk.
The only bookstore I had was the paperback rack at the drugstore.
Listening to women ain't the fashion in this part of the country.
You can scare off a lot of cowboys just by looking mean, I guess.
Someone was looking at me, a disturbing sensation if you're dead.
Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.
Usually a good part of the people trying it end up not making it.
Redeeming subjects from cliche is its own pleasure and privilege.
As a writer I'm more drawn to villains who are just slightly mad.
The drugstore is a wonderful place to see all manner of ailments.
Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.
Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
Prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.
Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.
Muscle has memory: the body knows things the mind will not admit.
As long as there shall be stones, the seeds of fire will not die.
You can't learn the truth about a man's intentions by asking him.
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
A picture's beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language.
We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.