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"Good words - that triumphalism of positivity- but life will claw and eat you - chew you over and over - if you carry such a small knife ..."
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"For whence did Dante get the material for his hell, if not from this actual world of ours? And indeed he made a downright hell of it."

"What about reality, you ask? Well, as far as I'm concerned, reality can go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut. I've never held much of a brief for reality, at least in my written work. All too often it is to the imagination what ash stakes are to vampires."

"The Apparent is the Bridge to the Real."

"I have to tell you the truth. But you are too ugly for it."

"Their grumpiness is often the grumpiness of perfectionists who hold that anything less than total victory is failure, a premise that makes it easy to give up at the start or to disparage the victories that are possible. This is Earth. It will never be heaven. There will always be cruelty, always be violence, always be de- struction."
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"True love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much as you have left ..."

"You say you don't mistrust me, yet you quote Chrysostom - Hell is paved with priests' skulls...."

"Writing with ferocity is a gift, provided that ferocity is a monomaniacal devotion to pursuing the truth ..."

"People quote proverbs without realizing they're really in awe of the authority of their truth and the power of their expression..."
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