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Get busy living or get busy dying.
Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
Only enemies speak the truth friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.
I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.
And in real life endings aren’t always neat, whether they’re happy endings, or whether they’re sad endings.
French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.