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"The same that oft-times hath charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam of perilous seas, in fairy lands forlorn."
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"What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in advance that the first impulse will be to laugh. That's all right. Laugh if you must. Just don't take your eye off what you see, for even in your imagination, here is a creature who can do you damage."

"When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately."

"Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction."

"Are you naked?" he rasped out. Swallowing hard, she nodded."

"Novelists are basically inviting their readers to play a game of pretend. That's what fiction is: a game of pretend."

"If it's fiction, then it better be true."
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"That men, who might have tower'd in the vanOf all the congregated world, to fanAnd winnow from the coming step of timeAll chaff of custom, wipe away all slimeLeft by men-slugs and human serpentry,Have been content to let occasion die,Whilst they did sleep in love's Elysium."

"Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breedsAlong the pebbled shore of memory!Many old rotten-timber'd boats there beUpon thy vaporous bosom, magnifiedTo goodly vessels; many a sail of pride,And golden keel'd, is left unlaunch'd and dry."

"I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute."
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