"There are always surprises. Life may be inveterately……" — T.C. Boyle
"There are always surprises. Life may be inveterately grim and the surprises disproportionately unpleasant, but it would be hardly worth living if there were no exceptions, no sunny days, no acts of random kindness."
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10 Quotes by T.C. Boyle
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I have an idea and a first line -- and that suggests the rest of it. I have little concept…
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But then, that's the beauty of writing stories-each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a…
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The professorial dictum has always been to write what you know, but I say write what you don't know and…
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I'd read somewhere that nine out of ten adults in Alaska had a drinking problem. I could believe it. Snow,…
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To be a friend of the earth, you have to be an enemy of man.
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First you have nothing, and then, astonishingly, after ripping out your brain and your heart and betraying your friends and…
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Sometimes, when she's out here alone, she can feel the pulse of something bigger, as if all things animate were…
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Pleasure, I remind myself, is inseparable from its lawfully wedded mate, pain.
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