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The cross comes before the crown and tomorrow is a Monday morning!
One must never be either content with, or impatient with, oneself.
An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only.
If you haven't met Satan recently, you are probably going his way!
A God. The God. One word can make all the difference in the world.
Pooh! Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations.
It is the greatest truth of our age: Information is not knowledge.
I'm not ashamed of anything I've done. Shame is a useless emotion.
You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
You end up becoming someone you see in the eyes of those you love.
Stories break silence and nourish those who work, feel, and dream.
Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.
I am a hindrance to the world, and the world is a hindrance to me.
For sometimes you can't help but crave some ruin in what you love.
It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.
Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.
Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire.
What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.
To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage.
But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience?
While I loved, and while I was loved, what an existence I enjoyed!
I only want an easy mind, sir; not crushed by crowded obligations.
If you've seen 'Friday Night Lights' - that was just like my town.
You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.
The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.
Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.
You're not getting this back you know. Consider it an asshole tax.
If you ask me, reincarnation is just another way to procrastinate.
What you see at fight club is a generation of men raised by women.
in skies of deepening blue the moon, heaven's queen was now afloat
In other words, fiction is payback for those who have wronged you.
My only wickedness is that I love you; my only goodness, the same.
When the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be their yet.
What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.
What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.
Don't worry about it. The right thing will come at the right time.
'High Cotton' is more conscious of class than 'Black Deutschland.'
I'm scattered, and then that last hundred pages, bam, I'm a laser.
Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else.
I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer.
Hemingway said the only way to write about a place is to leave it.
My book is traditional. It runs counter to the post-modern spirit.
I also believe I met William Gaddis once. He did not look Italian.
Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!
I am, emphatically. Mental illness triggered by xperimental error.
I have always preferred maps to books. They don't answer you back.
If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency.
I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.
Wars are never cured, they just go into remission for a few years.
Happiness! Can any human being undertake to define it for another?