"A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger."
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"We’re built of contradictions, all of us. It’s those opposing forces that give us strength, like an arch, each block pressing the next. Give me a man whose parts are all aligned in agreement and I’ll show you madness. We walk a narrow path, insanity to each side. A man without contradictions to balance him will soon veer off."
"There are no separations—only connections. There are no deaths—only transformations."
"Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them."
"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."
"Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying."
"Maybe you'll change Abandon all your wicked waysMake amends and start anew againMaybe you'll seeAll the wrongs you did to meAnd start all over, start all over again.Who am i kidding?Now, lets not get overzealous hereYoure always been a huge piece of shitIf i could kill you i wouldBut it's frowned upon in all fifty statesHaving said that, burn in Hell."
"Let me just pause a minute and drink in this moment. And if you film it, I’ll be able to get free refills for life."
"If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done."
"Forgive to set yourself free; love to set the prisoner free."
"Ah,” said Magnus. “Nerd love. It is a beautiful thing, while also being an object of mockery and hilarity for those of us who are more sophisticated."
"Infinite Promise The carrot of infinite promise always dangles just inches beyond our noses.The trick is to surreptitiously switch that carrot for a zucchini."
"Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained."
"Like it or not, there are people who are capable to love genuinely and kill brutally. The amazing thing about that, few of those could even sleep well like babies in the night."
"If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of."
"You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water..."
"Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy,"said my father as he watched the three beauties. "But it seems only idiots are ever happy. How can we explain this?"
"My biggest success is getting over the things that have tried to destroy and take me out of this life. Those are my biggest successes. It has nothing to do with work."
"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality."
"In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing."
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