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"Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for."
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"My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow."
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"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
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"Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will."

"I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon."
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"For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo."

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"Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you."

"Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?"
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