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Quotes by Novelist
"The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon."
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"Because trying to think of how to ask a woman you've known for exactly two days if she'd be willing to get into a car with you and take a road trip across the country was something I hadn't quite worked up to yet."
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"All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel."
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"The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little."
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"I do not feel an exile from America in any sense."
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"Mesa, adorno de marfil, arcoíris, cebolla, peinado, molusco, Sabbat, violencia, cutícula, melodrama, cuneta, miel, pañuelo... Nada la conmovía. (...) Nada conseguía ser más de lo que era en realidad. Eran solo cosas, prisioneras de su propia esencia."
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"For short term relaxation, I take a hot tub. It's my best way to unblock writers' block, too. For a bit longer relaxation, I enjoy camping. Just being in the wilderness, with no phones or computers or anything I have to do really refreshes my spirit."
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"I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others."
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"Alice? You didn't get this far without realizing that you don't have to cheat to win. You just have to accept that people are easily manipulated."
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"We need to be able to go to school and feel safe and accepted for who we are."
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"Then Henry speaks again. "Did he do it?"I turn to him slowly. "Does it matter?"
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"I imagine some people, like some toys, are born defective - which I suppose makes us all broken toys, don't you think?"
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"I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood."
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"The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own."
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"At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough."
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"I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, 'So now that you've got me, what are you going to do with me?' I turn into him. 'Put you somewhere you can't get hurt."
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"The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves."
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"(24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer."
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"While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put."
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"Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little."
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"One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends."
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"To be in the right is often an expensive business."
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"American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter."
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"There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas."
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"And if we burn, you burn with us."
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"People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that."
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"I plot the first 5 or 6 chapters quite minutely, and also the end. So I know where I am going but not how I'm going to get there, which gives characters the chance to develop organically, as happens in real life as you get to know a person."
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"One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves."
Road,
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"When Nico had woken up at Barrachina and found the Hunters' note about kidnapping Reyna, he'd torn apart the courtyard in rage. He didn't want the Hunters stealing another important person from him. Fortunately, he'd got Reyna back, but he didn't like how brooding she had become. Every time he tried to ask her about the incident on the Calle San Jose " those ghosts on the balcony, all staring at her, whispering accusations " Reyna shut him down."
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