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"Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it."
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"I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on."
Wisdom
"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth," the long out-of-print science fiction writer went on."
Creation
"There was a photograph of Trout. He was an old man with a full black beard. He looked like a frightened, aging Jesus, whose sentence to crucifixion had been commuted to imprisonment for life."
Appearance
"The brainless serenity of charwomen and janitors working late at night came over us. In a messy world we were at least making our little corner clean."
Peace
"The things other people have put into my head, at any rate, do not fit together nicely, are often useless and ugly, are out of proportion with one another, are out of proportion with life as it really is outside my head."
Reality
"Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier."
Relationship
"Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her."
Fate
"If your brains were dynamite there wouldn't be enough to blow your hat off."
Humor
"Don't forget to wind the restricted clock and put the confidential cat out."
Mystery
"We're really awful animals. I mean, that dumb Barbra Streisand song, 'People who need people are the luckiest people in the world' - she's talking about cannibals. Lot's to eat."
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"Don't the great tales never end?""No, they never end as tales," said Frodo. "But the people in them come, and go when their part's ended. Our part will end later or sooner."
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"A great story is impossible to forget."
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"At the end of your story, you get down to the purity of it all. It's like distilling something."
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"Storytelling answers questions and solves mysteries."
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"Maybe stories choose how they are told and who tells them."
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"Experience is the catalyst for all great stories."
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"All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.All of them?Sure, he says. Think about it. There's escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, capturing the wolves, taming the wolves. Being thrown to the wolves, or throwing others to the wolves so the wolves will eat them instead of you. Running with the wolf pack. Turning into a wolf. Best of all, turning into the head wolf. No other decent stories exist."
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"The making of stories is only one part of my craft -mainly, I'm a heart whisperer..."
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"What you need to remember is that there's a difference between lecturing about what you know and using it to enrich the story. The latter is good. The former is not."
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"When I was a child, I pestered my elders for stories."
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