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"In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience."
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"When he finished, he drank from the cup. Everyone else did too, so I followed suit.And nearly choked to death.It was like fire in liquid form. It took every ounce of strength I had to swallow it and not spray it on those around me."Wh...what is this?" I asked, coughing.Viktoria grinned. "Vodka."I peered at the glass. "No, it isn't. I've had vodka before.""Not Russian vodka."Apparently not."

"We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!"

"The joy of acting for me is to be able to experience emotions in a safe environment. You can't scream and cry in the street because everybody will look. If you do it on a movie set, you get applauded."

"I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth."

"Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience."

"As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself."

"I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy."

"You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever."

"Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience."
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"...I stood there, inexpressibly grateful that my life, for all its terrors, is so filled with moments of grace."

"Darkness doesn't fall at a predictable schedule. Darkness can overwhelm you any time of the day, as you know well."

"On those occasions when he had killed in the dark, he later needed to see his victims' faces because, in some unlit corner of his heart, he half expected to find his own face looking up at him, ice-white and dead-eyed. "Deep down," the dream-victim had said, "You know that you're already dead yourself, burnt out inside. You realize that you have far more in common with your victims after you've killed them than before."

"...because wonder admits to the existence of mystery, and the recognition of mystery in the world allows the possibility of Truth."
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