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• Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and…
• Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.
• It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience…
• Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to…
• People have been modeling their lives after films for years, but the medium is somehow unsuited to moral lessons, cautionary tales or…
• The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense…
• The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense…
• Fear . . . is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.
• I think when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you throw a…
• The whole magic of a plot requires that somebody be impeded from getting something over with.
• Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and then you're over. You've caught…
• I love the laconic. Clearly, I am not of their number.

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