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"I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all."
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"Lord Bacchus, do you remember me? I helped you with that missing leopard in Sonoma." Bacchus scratched his stubbly chin. "Ah... yes. John Green." "Jason Grace.""Whatever," the god said."
"We only see God when we see people."
"An applause is not just the recognition of good performance, but its proof of being different than the crowd."
"To be worthy of recognition, be humble."
"Without haters, you can't see the level of your progress, that shows you that haters are necessary evil."
"The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post."
"An undiscovered genius has no value in the marketplace."
"Complements from your companion will do you no good, but if you get complements from your competitors it means you are really doing good."
"The problem is not that we don't recognize the truth when we hear it. The problem is that we don't want to recognize what the truth might mean for us if we hear it."
"I just want the same thing Joe Montana got when he was MVP. He got respect. He got commercials. He got everything."
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"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."
"Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time."
"Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent."
"Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality."
"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."
"Why am I made the way I am? Why do I care about all the wrong things, and nothing at all for the right ones? Or, to tip it another way: how can I see so clearly that everything I love or care about is illusion, and yet--for me, anyway--all that's worth living for lies in that charm?"
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