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"There's no point in living in an alternate reality."
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"Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer."

"Life shouldn't be about survival alone but about living."

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."

"Don't look for meaning in life. It was meant to be lived not understood."

"Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live and a good day to die. Every day is also an apt time to learn and express joy and love for the entire natural world. Each day is an apt time to make contact with other people and express empathy for the entire world. Each day is perfect to accept with indifference all aspects of being."

"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."

"The most important phase of living with a person is respect for that person as an individual."
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"In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too hard to follow."


"I always regarded people who want fame with a lot of suspicion. Unless you have a product to sell, I don't know why anyone would want to be famous. I can't imagine what need that would fill."


"I always feel like I'm missing out on something, that someone is having more fun than I am, so I take measures to make sure that is impossible."


"It's amazing to me that people have any interest in such a low-level sex scandal. If I were sleeping with a congressman, maybe, but I'm a nobody and the people I'm writing about are nobodies."
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