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"Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay."
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"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."
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"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."
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"How long does the experience of pleasure or pain stay with you? For as long as there is weakness within. Then, further ahead they will not be there. There, one remains the 'Knower' of experience of pleasure and pain."
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"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
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"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
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"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."
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"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."
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"Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:Ever been kicked? Might have been.Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord."
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"Elders in the dark see better than children in the light."
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"Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of half-clothed handshake for bragging rights, none hers."
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"The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location."
Time
"It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes."
Old
"Conviction without experience makes for harshness."
Experience
"To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness."
Life
"I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial."
Will
"I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best."
Writer
"Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them."
Philosophy
"When something is finished, it cannot be possessed. Nothing can be possessed but the struggle."
Philosophy
"Some people might enjoy drain water if they were told it was vodka."
Humor
"I like to walk in the woods and see what Mother Nature is wearing."
Nature
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