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You must be human . . . how weirdly exotic and excitingly perverse.

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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...more

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Life could sometimes be grand.

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Words have weight.

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He’s my cat! He’s not God’s cat! Let God have his own cat! Let God have all the damn old cats He wants, and kill them all! Church is mine!

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It ain't the blows we're dealt that matter, but the ones we survive.

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It's best to be ruthless with the past.

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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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The prosaic fact of the universe's existence alone defeats both the pragmatist and the romantic.

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He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.

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What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common....

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We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.

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A left turn meant life - if you called what went on in the sunbaked exercise yard life, and many did; many lived it for years, with no apparent ill ef...more

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Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.

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