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““As I left my cab in the traffic jam, the driver made it clear he didn't like it that I was ending our relationship so unexpectedly””

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“To my horror principles have wormed their way into [the] fabric of my being.”

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I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.

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“The problem is most of the time when God’s supposed to be the hero, he comes across as the villain. I mean, look at what he did to Lot’s wife. What kind of divine being turns a man’s wife into a pillar of salt? What was her crime? Turning her head? You have to admit this is a God hopelessly…

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[I'll teach you] how not to leave the windows of your heart open when it looks like rain and how everyone has a stump…

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...I thought how I hate any kind of mob - I hate mobs of sports fans, mobs of environmental demonstrators, I even hate mobs…

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I was in the hospital and I was paralyzed and I went through all of these things. I've had all of these crazy experiences and jobs in my life, but I never really write about them because I've already told them as stories to friends. For me, the process of writing is the process of invention. But the hospital story…

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Let’s not mince words: the inside of the Sydney casino looks as if Vegas had an illegitimate child with Liberace’s underpants, and that child…

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Optimism isn't funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It's exaggeration.

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There's nothing perplexing to me about a leafy shrub evolving out of the big bang, but that the post office exists because carbon exploded…

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The game is an analogy for life: there are not enough chairs or good times to go around, not enough food, not enough joy,…

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“Don't touch me, you fat ghost!”

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Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice.

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Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.

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Every human creates his own problems. Problems are ones private property and we shouldnt meddle into them self-initiatively.

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One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.

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“Now you," Grandma barks at him. "Yes, you, the invisible truck driver," she added, giving me a wicked grin. "Go stand next to Rose over there by the stone bench and smile like you mean it." "Yes, ma'am," Will said. "I am not to be called ma'am. My name is Maggie," she crabbed. "Well, I also have a name. It's…

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“Fear of seeing a police car pull into the drive. Fear of falling asleep at night. Fear of not falling asleep. Fear of the past rising up. Fear of the present taking flight. Fear of the telephone that rings in the dead of night. Fear of electrical storms. Fear of the cleaning woman who has a spot on her cheek!…

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If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you.

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Have a Blast; Life wont last! Make the best of the journey before it is over!

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Life is like riding on a bus. God is the driver and I am the passenger. Have faith God knows which route to take.…

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“Friction is necessary. Ease of life leads to complacency and the atrophy of the human will and spirit. Within our struggles lives our strength, within our trials lives our triumphs. Friction creates a platform for change, generates heat and or fervor and creates a motivational charge that gives us an opportunity to be better. A gem cannot be polished without…

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