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- There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has felt at least…
- The important question has nothing to do with whether the talk in your story is sacred or profane; the only question is how it rings…
- I've given up thinking - it keeps getting me into trouble.
- If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.
- So okay - there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out of the base…
- Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes.
- No matter how many times you shake it the last drop always ends up in your pants
- ... don't let your elders and supposed betters tell you any different. Sure, you've never been to Paris. No, you never ran with the bulls…
- A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over…
- But it's hard for a man to give up all his pleasures, even when they don't pleasure him no more.
- The boat dipped and swayed and sometimes took on water, but it did not sink; the two brothers had waterproofed it well. I do not…
- Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome…
- Now I think all of us were born with a hole in our hearts, and we go around looking for the person who can fill…
- Faith is a great thing, and really religious people would like us to believe that faith and knowing are the same thing, but I don't…
- Part of my function as a writer is to dream awake. And that usually happens. If I sit down to write in the morning, in…
- When you stack up all the years we are allowed against all there is to read, time is very short indeed.
- I have never felt like I was creating anything. For me, writing is like walking through a desert and all at once, poking up through…
- When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god?…
- Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.
- A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars…
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- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster