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John C. Hawkes

"To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening."

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"To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening."

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"By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door."

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"Beckendorf, whose legs were now working fine (nothing like being chased by a huge monster to get your body back in order) shook his head and gasped for breath. "You shouldn't have turned it on! It's unstable! After a few years, automatons go wild!"

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"Getting eaten by a giant crocodile was bad enough.The kid with the glowing sword only made my day worse."

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"Oh, why had the Labyrinth brought me here?As soon as I thought this, I chided myself: Of course it would bring me where I least wanted to be. Austin had been wrong about the maze. It was still evil, designed to kill. It was just a little subtler about its homicides now."

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"To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another."

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"The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition."

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"In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority."

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"Where there is murder, anything can happen."

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"There is less danger in fearing too much than too little."

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"McGovern is so far left that he is in danger of falling off the earth."

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"I do not feel an exile from America in any sense."
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"I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting."
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"I didn't know what kind of jobs, because how was I prepared? At best, I would be an AB in English."
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"The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language."
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"Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year."
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"I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it."
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