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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
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"I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways."
"I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it."
"I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere."
"The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work."
"When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not."
"Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting."
"As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward."
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