"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."
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"I’ll stand by you forever. Or at least until noon, and then I’ll go stand under the cabana. Isn’t love amazing?"
"Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context."
"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope."
"It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing."
"My hands will get dirty holding your rose-shaped heart, because love is like gardening—it’s earthy and takes work to keep it alive."
"God Created [10w] Lips were created to kiss and hands to make peace."
"Accept yourself: flaws, quirks, talents, secret thoughts, all of it, and experience true liberation."
"Don't stop there. I suppose there are also, what, vampires and werewolves and zombies?""Of course there are. Although you mostly find zombies farther south, where the voudun priests are.""What about mummies? Do they only hang around Egypt?""Don't be ridiculous. No one believes in mummies."
"Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it."
"Carlsberg: Probably the best lager in the world... ...just like IKEA is the best furniture on earth."
"We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously."
"I'm gonna kill him,"Eve said, or at least that was what it sounded like filtered through the pillow.Stake him right in the heart, shove garlic up his ass, and-and-"And what?"(Michael)When did you get home?"Claire demanded.Apparently just in time to hear my funeral plans. I especially like the garlic up the ass. It's...different."
"Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings."
"The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have."
"Art is the proper task of life."
"The purification of the mind is very necessary. (72)"
"The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply."
"Do I fear death? No, I am not afraid of being dead because there's nothing to be afraid of, I won't know it. I fear dying, of dying I feel a sense of waste about it and I fear a sordid death, where I am incapacitated or imbecilic at the end which isn't something to be afraid of, it's something to be terrified of."
"Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth."
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