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Betrayal isn't ridiculous. It's the reason empires fall.
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There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women.
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I'm not afraid of total failure. In the end, we're all just food for worms, so what are we so worried about?
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It was never the act itself but our own understanding of it that defeated us, over and over again.
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Good bands you can kind of lose, then come back and realize they're still good.
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I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.
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Certainly one of the surprising truths of having a book published is realizing that your book is as open to interpretation as…
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I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should…
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I hate to think of a day where a compelling book or a compelling authorial voice would be lost simply because that…
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If I scribbled a few words on a cocktail napkin and showed it to my family, they'd proclaim it astonishing and more…
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In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely…
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In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the…
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If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely,…
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The real things about man are not his body...
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Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.
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The wood-carver can fashion whatever he will. Yet his products are but toys of the moment, to be glanced at in jest,…
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Mere inflation-that is, the mere issuance of more money, with the consequence of higher wages and prices-may look like the creation of…
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He loved telling stories. He had been everywhere in the world. The northwest frontier, the landscape of the Hindu Kush, was one…
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