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"I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody."
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"Adaptation is the key to survival."
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"A biomass will live with a self-preservation instinct."
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"Loving her, and being loved, was the only way I could hold myself together."
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"She looked at me, like she was drinking in the fact that I was still here. And I realized I was doing the same thing. The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive."
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"Just to keep the bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death."
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"We have teeth and we have tailsWe have tails we have eyesWe were here before you fellWe will be here when you rise."
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"The best thing-in Shadow's opinion, perhaps the only good thing-about being in prison was a feeling of relief. The feeling that he'd plunged as low as he could plunge and he'd hit bottom. He didn't worry that the man was going to get him, because the man had got him. He was no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, because yesterday had brought it."
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"When in doubt, choose to live."
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"We just did an awesome job of not dying."
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"Survive, survive and survive " these are the quintessential laws of Nature. But survive does not always mean being mean."
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"Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood."
Psychology
"For me, that emotional payoff is what it's all about. I want you to laugh or cry when you read a story...or do both at the same time. I want your heart, in other words. If you want to learn something, go to school."
Storytelling
"Close your eyes and click your heals three times...because there's no place like Dome."
Love
"When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing."
Mind
"Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of all."
Hope
"We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long."
Death
"It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost."
Philosophy
"What about reality, you ask? Well, as far as I'm concerned, reality can go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut. I've never held much of a brief for reality, at least in my written work. All too often it is to the imagination what ash stakes are to vampires."
Reality
"Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back."
Love
"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."
Writing
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