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"He hated this feeling of free-floating, just drifting from place to place, thought to thought, without any sense of anchor or root."
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"Vivi muito tempo no mundo das pessoas grandes. Vi-as de bem perto. Não fiquei com muito melhor opinião delas."
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"A journey of observation must leave as much as possible to chance. Random movement is the best plan for maximum observation."
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"The only thing that can stop hair from falling ... is the floor."
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"The tedious never die, that's what makes them tedious."
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"She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea."
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"The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting."
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"Quiet people always know more than they seem. Although very normal, their inner world is by default fronted mysterious and therefore assumed weird. Never underestimate the social awareness and sense of reality in a quiet person; they are some of the most observant, absorbent persons of all."
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"When you see a married couple coming down the street the one who is two or three steps ahead is the one who's mad."
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"How do you feel?He rubbed his stomach. "Like I've been eating Styrofoam."
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"I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights."
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"Grayson: Fiction is just a lie anyway.Brianna: But it's not - it's a different kind of truth - it would be your truth at the time of the writing, wouldn't it?"
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"It was a mistake to think of houses, old houses, as being empty. They were filled with memories, with the faded echoes of voices. Drops of tears, drops of blood, the ring of laughter, the edge of tempers that had ebbed and flowed between the walls, into the walls, over the years.Wasn't it, after all, a kind of life?And there were houses, he knew it, that breathed. They carried in their wood and stone, their brick and mortar a kind of ego that was nearly, very nearly, human."
Memory
"Good fiction creates its own reality."
Literature
"You don't find time to write. You make time. It's my job."
Time
"We all look. The lucky find. The wise accept."
Wisdom
"The most important aspect of any story, to me, is character."
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"For over a year I continued to submit mss, and have them rejected - the last few with rejection letters indicated the story was pretty good, but I was American."
Writing
"To fate and the strange way that it twists us all together."
Philosophy
"I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started."
Hope
"Memories are nice little possessions. As long as you don't ignore the present when you take them out to play."
Life
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