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.
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You always know the truth, because when you cut yourself or someone else with it, there’s always a bloody show.
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A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again.
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Things conceived by minds and made by hands can never be quite the same, even if they try their best to be identical, because they're never the same f...
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I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.
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The world was full of monsters, and they were all allowed to bite the innocent and the unwary
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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...
