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"From their perspective, however, torture might make a sort of cockeyed sense if it was ritualistic, part of a ceremony that this fraternity of the demented required of themselves when they murdered one of their own."
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"I have beaten people into the ground and the more they cry the more of a beating I gave them. If they don't cry, I come off, if they cry then I will beat them and beat them and beat them."
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"We are all a part of a culture of violence that dominates every aspect of our lives."
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"To protect one's own statement is the greatest form of violence. To impress upon others that his statement is correct is a form of violence itself."
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"He kills her in her own humor."
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"Violence only attacks the body, but it is non-violence that has the power to influence the soul and reshape it towards a peaceful future."
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"We live in a culture of violence."
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"Damn,' someone behind me says. 'I was hoping we would get to scrape some Stiff pancake off the pavement later."
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"I froze, shocked. (And don't try to claim that you did anything different the first time a government bureaucrat pulled a gun on you.)"
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"The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information."
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"All men carry murder in their hearts, yet even so, the poisoner is beneath contempt."
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"Good fences make good neighbors, and these were apparently good enough that they had not felt the need for razor wire at the top. I crested the fence, threw myself into the yard beyond, fell, rolled to my feet, and ran with the expectation of being garroted by a taut clothesline.I heard panting, looked down, and saw a gold retriever running at my side, ears flapping. The dog glanced up at me tongue rolling, grinning, as though jazzed by the prospect of an unscheduled play session."
Friendship
"Some mysteries bite and barkand come to get you in the dark."
Fear
"Although he never speaks of how or what or why, I know that his childhood was difficult, that his parents broke his heart. Books and excess poundage are his insulation against pain."
Childhood
"That I had come full circle shouldn't have surprised me, for we are born into time only to be born out of it, after living through the cycles of the seasons, under stars that turn because the world turns, born into ignorance and acquiring knowledge that ultimately reveals to us our enduring ignorance: The circle is the essential pattern of our existence."
Philosophy
"In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings."
Life
"Quick now, here, now, always, as if we are in a condition of complete simplicity..."
Mindfulness
"My only armor is my belief that life has meaning..."
Faith
"As a writer, Bibi, you could be a doctor of the soul."
Creativity
"Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled."
Love
"Of course, in the process, you must never do harm to others in any serious way, or you'll cease to amuse Him. Then payment comes due for promises you didn't keep."
Ethics
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