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The old mad king died three days later, to a predictable accompaniment of sentimental drivel in the newspapers, with people who’d forgotten the very name of George III putting on mourning and long faces.
“I worry about anthropomorphism as a form of self-deception. (The Christian religion is an anthropomorphic account of the universe.)”
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“Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.”
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“You need three things to become a successful novelist: talent, luck and discipline. Discipline is the one element of those three things that you can control, and so that is the one that you have to focus on controlling, and you just have to hope and trust in the other two.”
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“It's simply the case that as I get older, I seem every day to give a little bit less of a fuck what people think of or say about me.”
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“In the immemorial style of young men under pressure, they decided to lie down for a while and waste time.”
― The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
― The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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