“...he was after all, a novelist...and a novelist was simply a fellow who got paid to tell lies. The bigger the lies, the better the pay.”
― The Dark Half
― The Dark Half
“He sometimes believed that the compulsion to make fiction was no more than a bulwark against confusion, maybe even insanity. It was a desperate imposition of order by people able to find that precious stuff only in their minds . . . never in their hearts.”
― The Dark Half
― The Dark Half
“There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.”
― The Odyssey
― The Odyssey
“And empty words are evil.”
― The Odyssey
― The Odyssey
“Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.”
― The Odyssey
― The Odyssey
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