A boy has to peddle his book.
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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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It’s a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.
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The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he’ll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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A man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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Personally, I rather think that if you’re not creative you’ve got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you’ve got a double problem.
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I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning. Then I go back to the beginning. I mean, it’s always nice to know where you’re going is my theory.
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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.
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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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Everybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
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