Remember that "seeing is believing" puts the cart before the horse. Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world ...
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Why does she have to be such a...such a...""Go on," I said. "The truth is never cussing, Son.""Such a bitch!
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A successful marriage was a balancing act-that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was also dependent on a high tolerance for irritation.
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People who leave their drugs in a bathroom the guests use are just asking for trouble.
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When you're twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It's only when you get to twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect you've been looking at the map upside...
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There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the truth was utterly alien to t...
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Words have weight.
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...he was after all, a novelist...and a novelist was simply a fellow who got paid to tell lies. The bigger the lies, the better the pay.
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Don't think I know you," Harold said, grinning, as they shook. He had a firm grip. Larry's hand was pumped up and down exactly three times and let go....
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To do otherwise with a 'prentice was to ask for a second, less playful bite. And who would be to blame for that? Who but the teacher? For was he not t...
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He was in that mostly empty-headed state of grace which is sometimes such fertile soil ; it's the ground from which our brightest dreams and biggest i...
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The reason authors almost always put a dedication on a book is, because their selfishness even horrifies themselves in the end.
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Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.
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One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred pound Coke machine, one need worry about little else.
