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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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"We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger."

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"To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory."

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"A ship with a hole underneath is doomed to sink! And ignorance is also a hole in the brain, a big hole!"

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"To know what's in my food means to prepare a gun, to know what I drink means to go and put ammo in the gun after cleaning it and finding it and to as last just to push the trigger and look... I'm dead. I'm now just watching my body!"

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"Adrenaline wants to kill you..."

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"If something came out of the deal, it couldn't make things any worse for us than they already were, I thought. But I couldn't have been more wrong. Hell has no true bottom."

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"It's no use hiding in the bushes when you know there are snakes about."

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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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"You'd think getting chopped into a million pieces and cast into the darkest part of the Underworld would give him a subtle clue that nobody wanted him around."

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"They want to cook you and eat you," she said distatefully, "which is ridiculous. You'd taste terrible.""Thank you, grandmother."

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"I do not feel an exile from America in any sense."
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"My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead."
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"My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano."
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"When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately."
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"In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old."
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