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“The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.”
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“God is behind everything, but everything hides God. Things are black, creatures are opaque. To love a being is to render that being transparent.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.”
― American Tabloid
― American Tabloid
“When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time, man. That's all. One stone at a time. But I've read you can see that motherfucker from space without a telescope.”
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