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- Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that's too grand, too considered a process. History just burps,…
- If you remember your past too well you start blaming your present for it. Look what they did to me, that's what caused me to…
- Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting.
- Does character develop over time? In novels, of course it does: otherwise there wouldn't be much of a story. But in life? I sometimes wonder.…
- What is history? Any thoughts, Webster?' 'History is the lies of the victors,' I replied, a little too quickly. 'Yes, I was rather afraid you'd…
- I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was.
- In my terms, I settled for the realities of life, and submitted to its necessities: if this, then that, and so the years passed. In…
- And no, it wasn't shame I now felt, or guilt, but something rarer in my life and stronger than both: remorse. A feeling which is…
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