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I hate LA. Endless straight lines from nowhere particular to nothing much especially. Even

When you are alone, even the quiet is full of monsters

Time is not wisdom; wisdom is not intellect. I am still capable of being overwhelmed; he overwhelmed me. May

When we die it is as if the world resets, and only memory remains as evidence of the deeds we have done, no more and no less.

It was a reminder of the old truth that for tyranny to flourish all it required was the complicity of good men.

There is a black pit in the bottom of my soul that has no limit to its falling.

Everyone loves a Canadian.

Single-minded dedication to just one thing, without rest, respite or distraction, is only conducive to migraines, not productivity.

Until you have not been free, you cannot understand what freedom means.

God, but he lied beautifully; it was a masterclass. If I hadn't been concentrating so hard on my own deceit, I would have stood up and applauded.

The most it ever seems we know how to do with time, is to waste it.

There is no loss, if you cannot remember what you have lost.

I know now that there is something dead inside me though I cannot remember exactly when it died.

Insecurity is often the mother of aggression.

People always find difficult truths harder than easy lies.

Death flies because it is the modern way of things but doesn't particularly enjoy it, except for occasionally, when he rides up front with the pilot.

We all die. We don't have to live our lives fearing it.

You should learn to live a little, rough it out-I'm telling you, there's no greater high.

I locked my smile in the attack position,

The roads weren't much to speak of, and the car's suspension had been welded in by a stonemason resentful of his change in career.

To regret your soul is to regret your past.

Men must be decent first and brilliant later, otherwise you're not helping people, just servicing the machine.

Ours is the fellowship of strangers who know a secret that we cannot express.

Tell me, in a world where wealth is power, and power is the only freedom, what would desperate men not do to be heard?" "Civil

Forgive me," I wrote at the bottom. "I did not think I would break.

Blackmail is surprisingly difficult to pull off.

There is no loneliness more lonely than to be alone in a crowd. No awkwardness more unsettling than the inside joke you do not comprehend.

If Pietrok-111 was a one-horse town, Pietrok-112 was the glue factory where that horse went to die.

Nothing is ever quite enough. No matter who you are, there's always something more to be had, which could be yours if only you were someone else.

Consequences are only for the ones who stay behind.

How the fuck do I know that my better is anything more than the great big fat lie we tell ourselves to justify the slow fat nothing of our days.

I was six years old. I was seven hundred and fifty. I was being hunted.

The world is boiled down to aphorisms and fairy tales.

All men want to be someone else. It's what makes them do greater things with their lives. With the lives they can live.

You must choose the life you live at the time you live it.

In the end, he turned the radio on, and fell asleep to the sounds of either country or Western - he could never work out which was which.

After a night of drinking, she would be a pale, starling-sized creature, but now, in this place, she is moonlight in heels.

You know why the experts don't have an easy answer? Because a fucking expert's the guy who knows how complicated the fucking questions are.

It is said that there are three stages of life for those of us who live our lives in circles. These are rejection, exploration, and acceptance.

He who is silent is seen to consent.

Always so very courteous. Lose courtesy, and you lose control; lose control and you lose yourself.

Is there innocence in ignorance? And if there is, do we tolerate other for their innocence's sake?

I just want to be myself,' she murmured.

'But is that good enough?' Leena mused, 'Or is it just selfish?

In the land of the free you are free to say whatever you want, regardless of whether you have anything to say

He had a Kalashnikov, the universal weapon of all budget warriors,

We are no more and no less than minds, and it is human for the mind to be imperfect and to forget.

Your face is your fortune! Don't spend it all at once!

Levity and sincerity are not antonyms. We take pleasure in playing chess, but that does not mean we make wasteful moves. You

Luck is sometimes merciful. The Game never is.

What is the point of you?
The world is ending.
Now it's up to you.

My ma was all of them at some time, and what she learned is that the best way to talk to God is by yourself.

Complexity should be your excuse for inaction.

When you have seen the whole world, the old words said, there is always Greenland left.

For progress, we have eaten our souls up, and nothing matters anymore.

Series of cysts on his kidneys and liver which induced the septicaemia

Reason is dead." Death shrugged. "Was

Knowledge is not a substitute for ingenuity, merely an accelerant.

Time, it transpires, is not so good at telling after all.

only ice against which they can whisper, and who has any joy in scheming against winter herself? All

There is no greater isolation a man may experience than to be lonely in a crowd.