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"Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives."
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"We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also."
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"From that day on, I ran from spot to spot."
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"I never got to the point when I felt like running away from it all."
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"I'd rather be running the game than playing it."
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"Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part."
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"The assimilationist movement is running us into the ground."
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"And then after that, running around the bases, it was just one of those things. You couldn't believe what happened to you. And I look back on it, it's almost like it happened to somebody else."
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"Postfix keeps running even if one Postfix process dies; Windows requires that someone restarts the service."
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"I think he's Will 's partying a lot in Cabo. I think he's running a brothel. I don't know what he's doing."
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"When I look back over my novels what I find is that when I think I'm finished with a theme, I'm generally not. And usually themes will recur from novel to novel in odd, new guises."
Will

"Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that."
Movies

"Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it."
Will

"I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be, who owns them, and do they keep their doors locked?"
Horror

"I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long."
Sympathy

"HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned."
People

"It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can."
Books

"By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it is, you'd be writing about a lot of people sitting in front of television sets."
People

"I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about."
Nature

"If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life."
Life
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