Quotes 21 till 40 of 146.
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Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.
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Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
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Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.
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Either I will find a way, or I will make one.
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Eventually the writing takes time. What I want to do is get the story down and I want to know what happens as I write my way into the knowledge of the story.
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Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.
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Everyone becomes a part of history whether they like it or not and whether they know it or not.
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Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind.
Operation Shylock: A Confession (1993) -
Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.
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He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.
American Pastoral -
History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
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How far back must we go to discover the beginning of trouble?
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I am the Raskolnikov of jerking off – the sticky evidence is everywhere!
Portnoy's Complaint (1969) -
I came to New York and in only hours, New York did what it does to people: awakened the possibilities. Hope breaks out.
Exit Ghost (2007) -
I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.
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I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.
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I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.
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I had always imagined that Cliché was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.
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I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: ‘the ordeal is part of the commitment.’ It’s one of my mantras. It makes a lot of things doable.
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