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- It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that…
- As belief shrinks from the world, it is more necessary than ever that someone believe. Wild-eyed men in caves. Nuns in black. Monks who do…
- Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company…
- I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them.
- The force of a death should be enormous but how can you know what kind of man you've killed or who was the braver and…
- Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there. On…
- Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.
- I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories at that time,…
- No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know…
- Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they are. We know…
- If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.
- Insanity's so personal. It's hard to know who shares our secrets.
- Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out…
- Years after I'd seen him for the last time I found myself thinking of him unexpectedly and often. You know how certain places grow powerful…
- If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that…
- Why shouldn't the death of a person you love bring you into lurid ruin? You don't know how to love the one you love until…
- The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on…
- You need to know things the others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.
- Time seems to pass. The world happens, unrolling into moments, and you stop to glance at a spider pressed to its web. There is a…
- People will not die. Isn't this the creed of the new culture? People will be absorbed in streams of information. I know nothing about this.…
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