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Lonely women destroy themselves; lonely men threaten the world.
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That most natural human appetite, the hunger for somewhere else.
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The devil that stayed with me most vividly was the one from the cover of Iron Maiden's 'Number of the Beast' album.
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There were others who would have called him a scammer, a swindler, a con, but he never thought of himself this way. No good charlatan ever did.
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People use the notion of God to bully people and hurt people, when we can use the concept to respect and uplift.
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His life had been disrupted, but not his billing cycles.
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In the end, what's any good reader really hoping for? That spark. That spell. That journey.
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Stupid people had a few authors in common: Sidney Sheldon, Judith Krantz, Danielle Steel. What nonsense. Such dreck.
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My three obsessions are mental illness, horror and religion.
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'Dark Gods,' T. E. D. Klein's book of four novellas, felt like a godsend - even if it came from a deformed god, one that lurked beneath our sidewalks.
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No matter where you go, poor people have the capacity to endure. Some people even compliment us on it, as if endurance is all we can achieve.
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Nearly everyone could be undone by an old woman's displeasure.
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The horror genre is vast and full of brilliance. Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Herman Melville, the book of Esther. I'll happily join that list.
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There are people who say life is dull. Just a series of mundane events. But I can't agree. Things happen. Bet on that.
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No one ever knows if a book is good until they read the book.
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Empathy is what separates human beings from teenage boys.
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This wasn't about an infraction, but dictating a philosophy of life: certain types of people must be overseen.
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Lumpy and lazy; I aspired to lethargy. In the second year of university, I missed half my classes just because I couldn't pull myself out of bed.
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Fear warps our understanding of reality and even our ability to see reality clearly.
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If you haven't caused a scene in a psych unit, it's just because you haven't been inside long enough.
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'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.
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Seeing America by bus is like touring the Louvre in a Porta Potti.
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I spend lots of time on the Web, some of it even useful.
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I had a pretty bad time when I was an undergraduate at Cornell University. I failed out of school. I was much, much heavier.
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I wanted to write a story set in the Lovecraftian universe that didn't gloss over the uglier implications of his worldview.
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The journalistic endeavor - at least theoretically - is grounded in objectivity. The goal is to get you to understand what happened, when and to whom.
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His name is Robert Paulson.
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It's tough to write beautifully about ugly things, but Mitchell S. Jackson makes it look easy.
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Time alone is pornography for people with families.
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You had to be rich to risk looking broke. The
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I've spent my life visiting a handful of people who are very close to me when they've been committed to one hospital or another in New York.
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The best writing deadlines are poverty and death.
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Don't focus on the mishaps; consider the pleasures instead.
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I know that many authors say editors don't edit anymore, but that's not been true in my experience.
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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Since Queens is the most ethnically diverse plot of land on Earth, we had tenants from all over the globe. The whole world in one building.
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Try imagining James Joyce not writing about being a Catholic.
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Oppression doesn't make people noble. Give any of us a little comfort, and we'll kill to keep it. The despised become despicable.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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This was one benefit of being a grown man and not a kid: I wanted to impress this woman, but not to the point of getting myself killed.
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A little style is a good thing, but you can't trust a person who won't be ugly in front of you.
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Becoming unremarkable, invisible, compliant--these were useful tricks for a black man in a white neighborhood. Survival techniques.
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Dig if you will a picture:
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It's easier to hold onto a bad idea if you never share it, and it's harder to defend one if you let it out.
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The best monsters are our anxieties given form. They make sense on the level of a dream - or a nightmare.
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The success of any society must be judged by the life of its worst off. No other calculation will do.
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Nobody ever thinks of himself as a villain, does he? Even monsters hold high opinions of themselves.
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I have my teachers who tell me what to do. I'm not quite old enough yet to be truly independent.
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I don't know what to say about the hygiene of the male species.
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She was in college, a time of optimistic fascism when it seems that all the world needs is one more rally.
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Taken together the Internet reads like the grandest character-driven novel humanity has ever known. Not much plot though.
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Maybe nobody ever saw themselves completely objectively. Every self-image needs a flattering mirror or two.
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The poor aren't defeated. We're domesticated.
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I weighed 25 stone, and I didn't stand nine feet tall, so the weight didn't sit well on me. As big as a house? No. I was as big as an estate.
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I'll take Cthulhu over you devils any day.
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You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of 'Cuckoo's Nest.'
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Fuck the meek. The despised will inherit the earth!
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What was indifference compared to malice?
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