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“It's always been difficult for me to speak and express my innermost thoughts. I prefer to write. When I sit down and write, words grow very docile, they come and feed out of my hand like little birds, and I can do almost what I want with them; whereas when I try to marshal them in open air, they fly away from me.”
― Brodeck
― Brodeck
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“My friend and business partner, Gerald Peyton was 12 minutes late to the funeral. I’d reminded him it started at 2 p.m. “Yeah, yeah, Frank,” he said. “I’ll be there. Just be sure you make it.” Well, here I sat on my thumbs, and he was the no-show. He stopped at a bar and got sloshed, I thought.”
― Death Car
― Death Car
“I tell them that in Finland the first thing men coming back from the front wanted was sex; only after that did they take their skis off.”
― Linnunaivot
― Linnunaivot
“I always drink at lunchtime. It helps my imagination.”
― The Dead of Jericho
― The Dead of Jericho
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