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    Jim Thompson
    “I looked at her, with her hair spilled out on the pillows and the warmth of her body warming mine. And I thought, god-dang, if this ain't a heck of a way to be in bed with a pretty woman. The two of you arguing about murder, and threatening each other, when you're supposed to be in love and you could be doing something pretty nice. And then I thought, well, maybe it ain't so strange after all. Maybe it's like this with most people, everyone doing pretty much the same thing except in a different way. And all the time they're holding heaven in their hands.”
    ― Jim Thompson, Pop. 1280
    tags: crime, crime-fiction, human-condition, love, murder, violence
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    Jim Thompson
    “I ain't saying you're a liar, because that wouldn't be polite. But I'll tell you this, ma'am. If I loved liars, I'd hug you to death.”
    ― Jim Thompson, Pop. 1280
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    Jim Thompson
    “Practically every fella that breaks the law has a danged good reason, to his own way of thinking, which makes every case exceptional, not just one or two. Take you, for example.”
    ― Jim Thompson, Pop. 1280
    tags: crime, crime-fiction, human-condition
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    Jim Thompson
    “what else is there to do but laugh and joke...how else can you bear up under the unbearable?”
    ― Jim Thompson, Pop. 1280
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor, Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works
    tags: truth
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it”
    ― Flannery O' Connor, Wise Blood
    tags: memories
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “In yourself right now is all the place you've got.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
    tags: ataraxy, empowerment, independence, individuality, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
    tags: bleeding, hardship, sacrifice, sweat, work
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “There are all kinds of truth ... but behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “Later he saw Jesus move from tree to tree in the back of his mind, a wild ragged figure motioning him to turn around and come off into the dark where he might be walking on the water and not know it and then suddenly know it and drown.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
    tags: southern-gothic
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “...free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
    tags: free-will
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “It began to drizzle rain and he turned on the windshield wipers; they made a great clatter like two idiots clapping in church.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “I'm a member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
    tags: atheism, faith, realism
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “I don't have to run from anything because I don't believe in anything.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
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    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: books, thought
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
    tags: memories
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
    ― George R. R. Martin
    tags: books, reading
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    Stephen King
    “Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: books
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    Stephen King
    “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: life
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    Haruki Murakami
    “And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
    tags: adversity, inspirational, life-lessons, problems, trials
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    Stephen King
    “Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: books
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
    ― Haruki Marukami
    tags: expectation
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor
    tags: truth
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    Haruki Murakami
    “If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Stephen King
    “Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: harry-potter, jk-rowling, stephenie-meyer, twilight
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    J.K. Rowling
    “I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.”
    ― J.K. Rowling
    tags: books, magic, magic-books
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
    ― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
    tags: change, human
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    Lewis Carroll
    “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
    ― Lewis Carroll
    tags: alice, humor, inspirational, philosophy-of-life, psychological, yesterday
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    Lewis Carroll
    “But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
    "Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
    "How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
    "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: alice-s-adventures-in-wonderland
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