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- Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not…
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right away to look…
- There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you call it up…
- I wait. I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech. What I must present is a…
- I tend to feel if people say they're going to do something, they will, if given the chance.
- But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on…
- There is something reassuring about the toilets. Bodily functions at least remain democratic. Everybody shits.
- Well. Then we had the irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass, like pastel water momentarily frozen in a splash,…
- I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever…
- He's lost something, some illusion I used to think was necessary to him. He's come to realize he too is human. Or is this a…
- The objects I chose were designed to hold something, but I didn't fill them up. They remained empty. They were little symbolic shrines to thirst.
- Something is unfolding, being revealed to me. I see that there's a whole world of of girls and their doings that has been unknown to…
- A wave of blood goes up to my head, my stomach shrinks together, as if something dangerous has just missed hitting me. It's as if…
- Walking along past the store windows, into which she peers with her usual eagerness, her usual sense that maybe, today, she will discover behind them…
- What we share may be a lot like a traffic accident but we get one another. We are survivors of each other. We have been…
- People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is…
- Writing of the narrative kind, and perhaps all writing, is motivated deep down, by a fear or and fascination with mortality - by a desire…
- I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more…
- There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There's something delightful about it, something naughty, secretive, forbidden, thrilling. It's like…
- Perhaps they were looking for passion; perhaps they delved into this book as into a mysterious parcel - a gift box at the bottom of…
- There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive.
- This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that’s gone, but something that will never happen. Two old women giggling over their tea.
- It's impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because of what you say can never be exact, you always have to leave…
- Every ending is arbitrary, because the end is where you write The end. A period, a dot of punctuation, a point of stasis. A pinprick…
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- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail. — Giorgio Armani
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of. — J. J. Abrams
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen