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"I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all."
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"To be worthy of recognition, be humble."
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"Not to recognize God is to oppose the kingdom of love."
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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."
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"I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it."
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"She deserved at least one person who saw her and knew how good she was."
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"Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?"
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"When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame."
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"Your work may not be noticed by people, but there is One Who sees everything you are doing."
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"The world will never know you because you did not work hard enough."
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"Complements from your companion will do you no good, but if you get complements from your competitors it means you are really doing good."
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"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
"What's worth living for? what's worth dying for? what's completely foolish to pursue?"
Meaning
"The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences."
Creativity
"I think this goes more to the idea of 'relentless irony' than 'divine providence."
Irony
"Richard Papen: As it happened, I knew Gartrell. He was a bad painter and a vicious gossip, with a vocabulary composed almost entirely of obscenities, gutteral verbs, and the world "postmodernist."
Criticism
"Is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?"
Courage
"Maybe good luck was like bad luck in that it took a while to sink in."
Luck
"I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all."
Recognition
"It's so heartbreaking and unnecessary how we lose things. From pure carelessness. Fires, wars. The Parthenon, used as a munitions storehouse. I guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle."
Loss
"I think politics is deadly to write about, frankly. If you have a political agenda and you set out to write a novel to prove that, say, capitalism should crumble, then it's going to be a really bad novel. Very few people have been able to deal with political fiction - Dickens, Dostoyevsky. But even Tolstoy got really tiresome when he was talking about the serfs. You have to let characters be characters, not [gruff voice] Mr Capitalism or [girlie voice] Miss Anti-Fur."
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