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"I wasn't particularly worried; running is overrated anyway, and sport only makes you sweaty and smug and wears out the knees."
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"I like simple men and complicated women."
"You can pay for whatever you want, but I just want to warn you that I prefer to stay at places that don't start or end with the word 'motel."
"Art is good, but happiness is better."
"I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people."
"A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic."
"I try to avoid teaming up with goddesses who eat roadkill. It's one of my personal boundaries."
"I'd rather have a real South Dakotan who has lived in this state and made her living here instead of someone with a fancy East Coast law degree any day."
"Hope," Frank grumbled. "I'd rather have a few good weasels."
"I would like to see it go back to the wood racquets. To see the touch put back in tennis."
"I think I'd rather be liked than loved. It just seems as if more criticism and chastening is shown to those we love, while kind manners and compassion are reserved for those we simply like. So, I hope you like me."
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"PDR: Persons of Dubious Reality; refugees from the collective consciousness. Uninvited visitors who have fallen through the grating that divides the real, from the written. They arrive with their actions hardwired due to their repetitious existence and the older and more basic they are, the more rigidly they stick to them. Characters from cautionary tales are particularly mindless; they do what they do because it's what they've always done.And it's our job to stop them."
"Now and again. Good residency is about having the power to ask someone to do something, but not necessarily exercising it."
"Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world."
"Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable."
"Prices of semicolons, plot devices, prologues and inciting incidents continued to fall yesterday, lopping twenty points off the TomJones Index."
"I'm beginning to think you're the sort of person who does a great deal with very little."He meant a liar."
"There is no point in expending good money on the pursuit of an engine that can power aircraft without propellers. What is wrong with airships anyway? They have borne mankind aloft for over a hundred relatively accident-free years and I see no reason to impugn their popularity..."
"All of everything came into existence simply because it wanted to be. The big bang wasn't so much a big bang as a hasty dash toward an opportunity to trade nothingness for somethingness. The main contributory factor to the entire universe was a momentary effect in need of a cause."
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