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"You could study the connections for years and never work it out-it was all about things coming together,things falling apart,time warp, my mother standing out in front of the museum when time flickered and the light went funny, uncertainties hovering on the edge of a vast brightness. the stray chance that might, or might not, change everything."
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"The Japanese campaign involves therefore two great uncertainties; first, whether Russia will come in though we think that will be all right; and second, when and how S-1 will resolve itself."
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"My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business..."
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"I dont know what happens to country."
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"When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know."
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"She was always looking for guarantees in a world of none."
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"Who can tell when troubles may come?"
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"Sure, she said, and hugged the laptop bag closer. "What could go wrong?Michael's eyes flashed to meet hers in the rearview mirror.Besides everything, I mean, she said."
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"Nobody knows the aftermath."
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"One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions."
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Personal Development

"You could study the connections for years and never work it out-it was all about things coming together,things falling apart,time warp, my mother standing out in front of the museum when time flickered and the light went funny, uncertainties hovering on the edge of a vast brightness. the stray chance that might, or might not, change everything."
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"Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction."
Life


"The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story."
Friendship


"But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work."
Work


"I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories."
People


"I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for."
Experience


"It's a long story. I'll make it short as I can."
Brevity


"Who knew, or cared, the names of the Turks who blew the roof off the Parthenon? the mullahs who had ordered the destruction of the Buddhas at Bamiyan? Yet living or dead: their acts stood. It was the worst kind of immortality. Intentionally or no: I had extinguished a light at the heart of the world."
Destruction


"It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens."
Work


"So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter."
Environment


"It seems to me that psychology is only another word for what the ancients called fate."
Fate
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