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“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.”
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“It's always funny until someone gets hurt.
Then it's just hilarious.”
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Then it's just hilarious.”
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“There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place.”
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“All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.”
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“It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.”
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Paul’s 2025 Year in Books
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