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"I like simple men and complicated women."
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"I'd rather have a real South Dakotan who has lived in this state and made her living here instead of someone with a fancy East Coast law degree any day."
"I would like to see it go back to the wood racquets. To see the touch put back in tennis."
"I try to avoid teaming up with goddesses who eat roadkill. It's one of my personal boundaries."
"Hope," Frank grumbled. "I'd rather have a few good weasels."
"I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all."
"I think I'd rather be liked than loved. It just seems as if more criticism and chastening is shown to those we love, while kind manners and compassion are reserved for those we simply like. So, I hope you like me."
"I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people."
"You can pay for whatever you want, but I just want to warn you that I prefer to stay at places that don't start or end with the word 'motel."
"I wasn't particularly worried; running is overrated anyway, and sport only makes you sweaty and smug and wears out the knees."
"I'll play first, third, left. I'll play anywhere - except Philadelphia."
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"Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail."
"When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying."
"How I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature."
"I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts."
"We feel a private thrill, admit it, at the sight of beauty in flames. We wish to blast all the fine old things to oblivion and replace them with tasteless identicalstructures."
"I'm completely aware of Matisse and what he said, that painters must begin by cutting out their tongues."
"I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism."
"Steffie took my hand and we walked past the fruit bins, an area that extended about forty-five yards along one wall. The bins were arranged diagonally and backed my mirrors that people accidentally punched when reaching for fruit in upper rows."
"I'd never felt more human than I did when my mother lay in bed, dying. This was not the frailty of a man who is said to be 'only human,' subject to a weakness or a vulnerability. This was a wave of sadness and loss that made me understand that I was a man expanded by grief."
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