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- Choice, I've always believed, is all that separates us from animals.
- I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it took. But from…
- I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes, or really violent ones. I went…
- He wanted to ask her what sound a heart made when it broke from pleasure, when just the sight of someone filled you the way…
- When I was young, I asked my priest how to get to heaven and still protect yourself from all the evil in the world. He…
- And often the worst thing wasn't the victims--they were dead, after all, and beyond any more pain. The worst thing was those who loved them…
- Do you honestly think Lenin is any different from J.P. Morgan? That you, if you were given absolute power, would behave any differently? Do you…
- In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb.
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