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"Reality was dawning on him and he hated reality. If you were him, so would you."
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"I claim not to have controlled events but confess plainly that events have controlled me."
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"You're too old for fairy tales, Baasen said."
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"By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life."
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"The real world is oftentimes different from what you expect it to be, what you think it to be, and what people might say it to be."
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"Children, our lives have been gongs striking; clamour and boasting; cries of despair; blows on the nape of the neck in gardens."
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"A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen."
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"It's more real to me here than if I went up," he suddenly heard himself say; and the fear lest that last shadow of reality should lose its edge kept him rooted to his seat as the minutes succeeded each other."
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"Some people think the stars must look closer from up here. They don't. When you're up here, you realize how distant they really are-how impossible to reach."
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"The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that, and maybe sleeping beauty's dead."
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"My date the next night brought a sock puppet with him. A. Sock. Puppet. And he talked to me with it'... 'It completely freaked me out,' Kalani continued. 'I made it through drinks and that was more than enough. I told the guy it was a good thing he had one good hand left because if this was his usual MO for dates, he was going to need it."
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"It's better to be remembered for what you said, not what you earned."
Legacy
"I live, love and loathe my characters. They stole my mind. They stole my heart."
Art
"Don't mock my suggestions, Ridley " one day in the near future, they might just save your life. Maxwell D. Kalist."
Advice
"Are there not times, Ridley, when you yourself wish only to hear the best in people " and not to be dragged downwards into the underworld we all regularly inhabit?"
Hope
"When I write, it feels like there are two little creatures that sit on each of my shoulders. One whispers, 'You can do this. You've got what it takes.' The other sounds like my mother-in-law."
Motivation
"My best writing happens when I'm fighting to produce it."
Perseverance
"You are a more powerful person than you might have ever imagined. Maxwell D. Kalist."
Potential
"We are all the sum of a million moments in our lives."
Experience
"It's much harder to twist the charitable arm of a lottery winner compared to that of a man at his lowest ebb. It sounds like the wrong way round at first, but when you really put your nut to it, people are more frightened of losing the big shit than of having fuck all to begin with and losing a bit of that."
Society
"Most people assume I write at night because of the kind of books I write, but I can shut out the light with my mind."
Writing
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