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- Books are like people. Some look deceptively attractive from a distance, some deceptively unappealing; some are easy company, some demand hard work that isn’t guaranteed…
- Stories about mental aberration and oddity only make sense in context. Just how do people live with someone who is peculiar, gifted, strange or alien?…
- Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in…
- I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one.
- I suffer depression only in the sense that I am a writer. We don't have proper jobs to go to. We are on our own…
- ...people who believe in God think God has put human beings on earth because they think human beings are the best animal, but human beings…
- ..and only sticks and stones can break my bones.
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