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"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."
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"And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight."
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"Error of omission begets new rules."
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"I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break."
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"Some people - and a high percentage of submissives - wanted clear-cut rules. Preferred their duties laid out, like schedules and lists."
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"The golden rule is that there are no golden rules."
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"There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules."
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"Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules."
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"If you know the rules, it's not anymore interesting the game, but if you don't know them it's interesting... like what's the feeling to be 24 hours at jail, who can you meet at jail. Do you know somebody from the guards...?!"
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"We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud."
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"You try to stay within the rules for the sake of the game, but you can always turn up the intensity."
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"What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature."
Life
"We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits."
Friendship
"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."
Age
"If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself."
Integrity
"You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance."
Humor
"Did you really cease to love a person because you had been treated cruelly?"
Love
"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."
Age
"No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul."
Soul
"And the poor lady, so small in her black satin, shrivelled up and sallow, with her funny corkscrew curls, took the little boy on her lap and put her arms around him and wept as though her heart would break. But her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with a new love because he had made her suffer."
Emotion
"We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby."
Baby
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