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"Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other."
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"A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor."
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"You are whatever you shall leave behind when you leave life!"
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"If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success."
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"It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much."
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"Fair... You'd be amazed how often I hear that word, Frank Zhang,and how meaningless it is. Is it fair your life will burn so short and bright? Was it fair when I guided your mother to the Underworld? No, not fair. And yet it was her time. There is no fairness in Death. If you free me, I will do my duty."
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"To be closed as a person, it's not bad if you know that when this two rules, playing by your rules doesn't mean that you won't end up in jail, security why?We both know that everyone dies... it really doesn't matter who is first... in the end all die!"
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"He put the car in gear and went, feeling again how easy it had been to slip through an unexpected fissure in what he had considered a solid life- how easy it was to get over onto the dark side, to sail out of the blue and into the black."
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"It's not that I've 'faked my own death' as the saying goes. Maybe it's that I've 'faked my own life,' and in doing so I've yet to realize how dead I really am."
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"Easter is the final solution to the finality of death."
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"The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story.... Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction."
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"Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question."
Life
"There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go."
Time
"Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead."
Day
"Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching."
Success
"When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing."
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"I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really."
Life
"We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress."
Work
"Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life."
Life
"I think that [William] Faulkner and I each had to escape certain particulars of our lives, and we found salvation through words. I understand the Bible story of Babel so much better now. I think that moments of extremity, desires of escape, lead us to foreign languages--not those learned in schools, but those plucked from the human heart, the searing conditions of isolation. I did not have to be limited to my biography because of words, and I shared this with Faulkner, who invented new words and punctuation and expression and worlds. He utterly reshaped the world."
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"I've been accused of having a death wish but I think it's life that I wish for, terribly, shamelessly, on any terms whatsoever."
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