"The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them."

Truth, Career, Effect

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"The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them."

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"Young people are caught up in whatever appears to be the most bizarre. They look for truth and settle for folly. False religions and the occult are clever in reaching seekers who want to experience a rush of any kind."

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"On their deathbed men will speak true, they say."

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"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."

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"What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"There are Christians who have never really learned the biblical truth of separation: separation from unclean thoughts and unclean habits."

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"Idolatrous beliefs have eroded the foundations of truth. Whether ancient or modern, all have posed alternatives to the biblical way of approaching God."

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"It is not what you don't know that hurts you; it is what you do know, which is not the truth that does your spirit the most harm."

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"The state of no being knows neither pleasure nor pain."

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"Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher."

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"There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed."

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