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Don't make fun of me!" Ender said. "I'm afraid I'm going crazy. — Orson Scott Card

God was, to me, a lovely dream, a brave make-believe daddy who provided comforting answers to those who couldn't bear the prevailing evidence. — Steve Almond

At the end of your life, you're lucky if you die. — Bret McKenzie

Styx has become the mullet of bands. — Steve Almond

At what point do we admit that the NFL's true economic function is to channel our desire for athletic heroism into an engine of nihilistic greed? — Steve Almond

The consensus was that I was an elitist, which is a right-wing term for someone smarter than you. — Steve Almond

Rock and roll allowed people to lie about themselves, and to be sanctified for the extravagance of their fictions. This — Steve Almond

If you farm wisdom you will harvest knowledge. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Football, fraternities, and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university. — Robert Maynard Hutchins

Extremes are ever neighbors; 'tis a step from one to the other. — James Sheridan Knowles

The first thing anyone can do, about any issue, is get informed. — Adora Svitak

We all have a right to know, and if the government has been suppressing information about other life forms, that's the cruelest hoax of all. — Dwight Schultz

Jesus' whole life and mission involve accepting powerlessness and revealing in this powerlessness the limitlessness of God's love. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

It is in these moments of tender and ridiculous nostalgia that I know something inside me is still broken. — Steve Almond

It's the reason we become enamored of certain singers, I think, because they project the voice we wish to summon within ourselves. His — Steve Almond

I think they ought to be treated equally. Period. — Gerald R. Ford

By attempting to "write bad" for twenty minutes, they'd somehow managed to produce remarkable work.
From AWP - The Writer's Notebook — Steve Almond

There's something incredibly liberating about a holiday that encourages children to take candy from strangers — Steve Almond

A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference. — David Almond

Time is a track that loops back on itself, where memories rattle like tin trains. How had I been spending my days, but in the whirl of memories? — Steve Almond

At the end of night, before you close your eyes, be content with what you've done and be proud of who you are. — Steve Almond

We need books ... because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend. — Steve Almond

it was off to the library, where people went before God invented the Internet and — Steve Almond

Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night. — Steve Almond

There is a point you reach, I mean, when you are just something bad that happened to someone else. — Steve Almond

This, it would turn out, is the main thing we had in common: a susceptibility to the brassy escapism of myth. — Steve Almond

While you are waiting to die, you have to live. — Kate Williams

At about the age of ten, during a late summer visit to Sears to buy school clothes, I became aware of the concept of candy by the pound. — Steve Almond

Most forms of rage, after all, are only sloppy cloaks for grief. — Steve Almond

The guys were going down one road, and I was going down another. — Kami Garcia

The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this - is because I refused to give up. Period. — Steve Almond

20a. What You Should Be Writing About

Anything you can't get rid of by other means. — Steve Almond

But I come to stories in the naked hope they will fuck me up. — Steve Almond

All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction. — Steve Almond

The answer is that we don't choose our freaks, they choose us. — Steve Almond

I have a hard time defending the production of candy, given that it is basically crack for children and makes them dependent in unwholesome ways. — Steve Almond

All language is an aspiration to music. — Steve Almond

Misery loves another idiot with a jukebox where his soul should be. — Steve Almond