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“I watch people sometimes, wonder how they can walk around with the weight of what they know.”
― Dark Roots
― Dark Roots
“Kids believe in Santa; adults believe in childhood.”
― Dark Roots
― Dark Roots
“Of course I know that the twins are only words on a page, and I'm certainly not the sort of writer who talks to his characters or harbours any illusions about the creative process. But at the same time, I think it's juvenile and arrogant when literary writers compulsively remind their readers that the characters aren't real. People know that already. The challenge is to make an intelligent reader suspend disbelief, to seduce them into the reality of a narrative.”
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“With a novel, which takes perhaps years to write, the author is not the same man he was at the end of the book as he was at the beginning. It is not only that his characters have developed--he has developed with them, and this nearly always gives a sense of roughness to the work: a novel can seldom have the sense of perfection which you find in Chekhov's story, The Lady with the Dog.”
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“You can take the barbarian out of the tavern, but he can take the blood out of your body.”
― Bears, Recycling and Confusing Time Paradoxes
― Bears, Recycling and Confusing Time Paradoxes
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