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"That happens a lot with Shakespeare. The women go after what they want the men wind up suckered into things."
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"The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth."

"Stories are like children. They grow in their own way."

"In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself."

"It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then."

"It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel."

"The literary man re-reads, other men simply read."

"And she never could remember and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book."

"One of the most dangerous of literary ventures is the little, shy, unimportant heroine whom none of the other characters value. The danger is that your readers may agree with the other characters."

"Like someone excitedly relating a story, only to find the words petering out, the path gets narrower the further I go, the undergrowth taking over."

"I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else."
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"The talks were like blood transfusions, moments of realness and hope that were pinpricks of light in the dark fabric of small-town life."

"We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day."

"She didn't care that people called her a bitch. 'It's just another word for feminist,' she told me with pride."

"I clap so that I can hold on to this feeling. I clap because I know what will happen when I stop. It's the same thing that happens when I turn off a really good movie - one that I've lost myself to - which is that I'll be thrown back to my own reality and something hollow will settle in my chest."

"Firefly, it is an act of bravery to feel your feelings. Oh, Meg would've loved that. It's an act of bravery to feel your feelings, even if your feelings are telling you to die."

"It's my turn to see you through,' she whispers, coming back to me and wrapping me in her blanket as I lose my shit all over again. She holds me until I recover my Y chromosome."

"Look I accept Adam because you love him. And I assume he accepts me because you love me...your love binds us.'...The funny thing was, I never really bought into Kim's notion that they were somehow bound together through me- until just now when I saw her half carrying him down the hospital corridor."
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