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"There are times when I can't believe how much ridiculous stuff happens to me and how brilliant it is to be in a position to write about it."
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"Good God. Men everywhere."
"She was a most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from story to story was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea. Another noticeable circumstance in Mrs. Sparsit was, that she was never hurried. She would shoot with consummate velocity from the roof to the hall, yet would be in full possession of her breath and dignity on the moment of her arrival there. Neither was she ever seen by human vision to go at a great pace."
"Right now, it's hard to imagine that it is raining anywhere in the world."
"The surveillance, he thought, essentially should be maintained. And, if possible, by me. I should always be watching, watching and figuring out, even if I never do anything about what I see; even if I just sit there and observe silently, not seen: that is important, that I as a watcher of all that happens should be at my place."
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"I'm almost afraid to tell you. Let's put it this way: clean toilets are the least of your problems in this country."
"You can't go by what a girl says, when she's giving you the devil for making a chump of yourself. It's like Shakespeare. Sounds well, but doesn't mean anything."
"It was a nasty look. It made me feel as if I were something the dog had brought in and intended to bury later on, when he had time."
"The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard the townsfolk cry 'Monster!' and looked behind him."
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"Trap yourself inside your own brain, switch off the light, block all the escape routes, then turn your back on everything you know to be reality and try and survive there. Try. Living. Nowhere."
"People love books because they're searching for answers to deep, unconscious questions - and books get as close as it's possible to get."
"When a person sets out to learn from others and not to teach others he becomes a true writer."
"Writing is a solitary existence, especially if you forget to chat to your friends " sorry, I meant characters."
"Some ancient oversight had nearly taken his sight, but this sad fuck was already blind inside."
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