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Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.
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I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to…
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Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
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I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
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I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.
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I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things…
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In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joining together thinking and feeling.
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In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, Botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the body-mind, the…
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Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked…
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We were all born with webbed feet and a golf club in our hand.
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The Bumpuses were so low down on the evolutionary totem pole that they weren't even included in Darwin's famous family tree. They…
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With women, my wiring shorts out. My senses respond to the physical and the chemical, the scent and sheen of her. Evil…
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I immediately cotton on to the fact that intelligence thus lightly used, and one-upmanshipishly displayed, is a birthmark giving me a two-coloured…
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We didn't build the interstate system to connect New York to Los Angeles because the West Coast was a priority. No, we…
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Women without children are also the best of mothers,often, with the patience,interest, and saving grace that the constant relationship with children cannot…
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Whiskers of the cat, Webbed toes on my swimming dog; God is in the details.
— Dean Koontz
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