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“If people were not by nature insane and resistant to self-improvement or therapy,”
― City of Saints and Madmen
― City of Saints and Madmen
“The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock—shock is a worn-out word—but astonish.”
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“Never promise to do the possible. Anyone could do the possible. You should promise to do the impossible, because sometimes the impossible was possible, if you could find the right way, and at least you could often extend the limits of the possible. And if you failed, well, it had been impossible.”
― Going Postal
― Going Postal
“After watching the house for a few days, she had concluded that the magician lived alone, but you never knew if someone had a secret lover stashed away. Or a very loud pet. That time with the peacock, for instance. Noisy birds, peacocks.”
― Conservation of Shadows
― Conservation of Shadows
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