T.C. Boyle Quotes

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• I have an idea and a first line -- and that suggests the rest of it. I have little concept of what I’m going to…
• At best, I consider flying an unavoidable necessity, a time to resurrect forgotten prayers and contemplate the end of all joy in a twisted howling…
• But then, that's the beauty of writing stories-each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And when you find…
• The professorial dictum has always been to write what you know, but I say write what you don't know and find something out. And it…
• I'd read somewhere that nine out of ten adults in Alaska had a drinking problem. I could believe it. Snow, ice, sleet, wind, the dark…
• To be a friend of the earth, you have to be an enemy of man.
• There are always surprises. Life may be inveterately grim and the surprises disproportionately unpleasant, but it would be hardly worth living if there were no…
• First you have nothing, and then, astonishingly, after ripping out your brain and your heart and betraying your friends and ex-lovers and dreaming like a…
• Sometimes, when she's out here alone, she can feel the pulse of something bigger, as if all things animate were beating in unison, a glory…
• Pleasure, I remind myself, is inseparable from its lawfully wedded mate, pain.

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