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Sometimes, the embers are better then the campfire. It's strange, but it's true.

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But there are weak men who can lift cars if their wives are pinned underneath. The brain, Garraty." McVries's voice had dropped to a hoarse whisper. "...more

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Thinking, Garraty thought. That’s the day’s business. Thinking. Thinking and isolation, because it doesn’t matter if you pass the time of day with som...more

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I don't want to see it anymore. It's lousy. And it's a cheat. You build it all around something... set yourself on something... and then you don't wan...more

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They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?

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It took me twenty years of living with my father to accept the idea that being good could be good enough.

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In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .

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No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There ar...more

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In the end, the wind takes everything, doesn't it? And why not? Why other? If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness a...more

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I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us w...more

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No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.

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I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because ...more

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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? Why me?' and the...more

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I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writin...more

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A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures.