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"The front room of his house was what I called 'untidy chic'. Prefects weren't subject to the same Rules on room tidiness, but since no one really enjoyed clutter, a certain style of ordered untidiness was generally considered de couleur for a prefect's room."
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"God has created the world to be run by His principles."
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"Discipline is a demand of life."
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Personal Development
"It was nostalgic in that painful way nostalgia could be."
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Personal Development
"If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it."
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Personal Development
"If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house."
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Personal Development
"Taxes should be lower, flatter, and simpler, in that order."
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Personal Development
"In order to play and write, it's unique - you either do one or the other."
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Personal Development
"All laws work for our good; therefore, we should know and observe them."
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Personal Development
"Michael, in a motel in Twentynine Palms, a gun in his hands. Not at Meredith's, painting in an explosion of new creation. Not over on Sunset, digging through the record bins, or at Launderland separating the darks and lights. Not at the Chinese market, looking at the fish with their still - bright eyes. Not at the Vista watching an old movie. Not sketching down at Echo Park. He was in a motel room in Twentynine Palms, putting a bullet in his brain."
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Personal Development
"I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion."
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"PDR: Persons of Dubious Reality; refugees from the collective consciousness. Uninvited visitors who have fallen through the grating that divides the real, from the written. They arrive with their actions hardwired due to their repetitious existence and the older and more basic they are, the more rigidly they stick to them. Characters from cautionary tales are particularly mindless; they do what they do because it's what they've always done.And it's our job to stop them."
Reality
"Now and again. Good residency is about having the power to ask someone to do something, but not necessarily exercising it."
Leadership
"Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world."
Poetry
"Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable."
Mortality
"Prices of semicolons, plot devices, prologues and inciting incidents continued to fall yesterday, lopping twenty points off the TomJones Index."
Satire
"I'm beginning to think you're the sort of person who does a great deal with very little."He meant a liar."
Deception
"The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully."
Mortality
"There is no point in expending good money on the pursuit of an engine that can power aircraft without propellers. What is wrong with airships anyway? They have borne mankind aloft for over a hundred relatively accident-free years and I see no reason to impugn their popularity..."
Innovation
"The known had been so long dwarfed by the unknown that confusion was an easy bedfellow."
Mystery
"All of everything came into existence simply because it wanted to be. The big bang wasn't so much a big bang as a hasty dash toward an opportunity to trade nothingness for somethingness. The main contributory factor to the entire universe was a momentary effect in need of a cause."
Creation
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