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"I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving."
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"Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments."
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"My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car."

"I had to stop driving my car for a while... the tires got dizzy."

"The idea that maybe you don't have to own a car if you only need one occasionally may catch on, just like time-sharing caught on in real estate."
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"I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks."

"Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."

"Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake."

"Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon."

"History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth."

"Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing."

"In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment."
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