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"There's an idea that hell is other people. My idea is that it might be repetition."
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"More times than I can remember I look around and I ask why the hole I'm in looks so strangely familiar. Probably because it looks a whole lot like all the other ones I dug before I got around to digging this one."
"It is amazing how much wisdom has been handed down through the ages, yet we still make the same mistakes."
"Today the same thing over. I've got it up the tree again."
"Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained."
"I'm getting tired of answering the same questions every day."
"Then we change our possy and lie down again to play cards. We know how to do that: to play cards, to swear, and to fight. Not much for twenty years; - and yet too much for twenty years."
"We stuck the record head so it kept on recording over and over on top of itself and played keyboard notes into it to create this ghost repetition melody."
"Repetition on things like that becomes quite painful. If you do a stunt sometimes it can look like a stunt."
"The fights are always the same."
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"For a woman a man will do many things that he'd turn his back on in an instant when alone; things he'd back away from, nine times out of ten, even when drunk adn with a bunch of his friends egging him on."
"The inmates made jokes about the chair, the way people always make jokes about things that frighten them but can't be gotten away from."
"This is how we bring about our own damnation, you know-by ignoring the voice that begs us to stop. To stop while there's still time."
"Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do- to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street."
"I believe the first draft of a book - even a long one - should take no more than three months. Any longer and - for me, at least - the story begins to take on an odd foreign feel, like a dispatch from the Romanian Department of Public Affairs, or something broadcast on high-band shortwave duiring a period of severe sunspot activity."
"There was murder, there was rape, there were unspeakable practices, and all of them were for the good, the bloody good, the bloody myth, for the grail, for the Tower."
"It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died one tiny piece at a time, each piece something that fell like a memory, each lost like an echo that fades in winding hills. In the end even war ran up the white flag. Or so he hoped. He hoped that in the end even war surrendered."
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