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Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see…
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The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
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We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.
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Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing.
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You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.
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We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate…
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Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the…
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Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them…
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I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,…
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I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a realist writer,…
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I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come…
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Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country,…
— Nelson Mandela
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The "public" seems to have bought into this belief that life can, and should, be run without risk, that all accidents are…
— Jeremy Clarkson
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There's a lie that all drivers tell themselves. Death is something that happens to other people, and that's how you find the…
— James Hunt
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You think, eventually, that nothing can disturb you and that your nerves are impregnable. Yet, looking down at that familiar face, I…
— Eliot Ness
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I do. I can’t say that being in the Valley of the Shadow of Death is something I’ve become all that accustomed…
— Ted Bundy
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Calculating people are contemptable. The reason for this is that calculation deals with loss and gain, and the loss and gain mind…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
— Carl Jung
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Death is something you cannot escape, such as death, or a cheesecake that has curdled, both of which always turn up sooner…
— Daniel Handler
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Our lives carry us along in ways we cannot control, and almost nothing stays with us. It dies when we do, and…
— Paul Auster
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Death is something we shouldn't fear because, while we are, death isn't, and when death is, we aren't.
— Antonio Machado
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Death is something to savour, and I hope to savour mine.
— Stephane Hessel
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Death is something that happens to others, you think, until it happens to you.
— Roger Rosenblatt
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