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Quotes by Novelist
"After fight club you're so relaxed, you just cannot care."
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"There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy."
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"Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation."
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"She was thinking of his mouth on hers. Which seemed only fair since he'd given a lot of thought to the same thing."'Night, she whispered."Night, he whispered back.And yet neither of them moved."
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"Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like."
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"I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart."
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"By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over."
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"Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it."
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"I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor."
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"Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented."
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"I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living."
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"Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life."
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"If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money."
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"I've had enough of this. if you'll excuse me, i'm going to find a tavern where i can pay an underdressed woman to sit it my lap and look very pleased with me while i drink heavily."
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"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."
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"If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves, it's very hard to ignore drugs nowadays, because that is so much part of the conversation."
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"Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal."
Man,
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"There was something better in life than this rubbish, if only he could get to it-love-nobility-big spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science could reach, but they existed for ever, full of woods some of them, and arched with majestic sky and a friend. . ."
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"If a night-moth were to concentrate its will on flying to a star or some equally unattainable object, it wouldn't succeed. Only, it wouldn't even try in the first place. A moth confines its search to what has sense and value for it, what it needs, what is indispensable to its life... if I imagined that I wanted under all circumstances to get to the North Pole, then to achieve it I would have to desire it strongly enough that my whole being was ruled by it. But if I were to decide to will that the pastor should stop wearing his glasses, it would be useless. That would be making a game of it."
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"If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined."
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"Men are like roses. You have to watch out for the pricks."
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"What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told."
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"The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality - it connects you to reality."
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"She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind."
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"Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment."
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"Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!"
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"Here in the bathroom with me are razor blades. Here is iodine to drink. Here are sleeping pills to swallow. You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be. Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you reenlist."
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