“ Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black. ”
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“ And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit. ”
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“ The universe is a million billion lightyears wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with regards to human life. ”
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“ He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed. ”
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“ It is straightforward—and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he cared for humankind, he would never have given us religion. ”
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“ This had seemed a safe choice, since to be against the Beatles (latemiddle period) is to be against life. ”
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“ My life looked good on paper where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived. ”
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“ Novelists don't normally write about what's going on; they write about what's not going on. ”
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“ Sex is hard to write about because you lose the universal and succumb to the particular. We all have our different favorites. Good sex is impossible to write about. Lawrence and Updike have given it their all, and the result is still uneasy and unsure. It may be that good sex is something fiction just can't dolike dreams. Most of the sex in my novels is absolutely disastrous. Sex can be funny, but not very sexy. ”
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“ It is straightforward—and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he cared for humankind, he would never have given us religion. ”
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“ Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is nearuniversally dreadful. ”
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“ And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit. ”
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“ You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star. ”
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“ Sex has become much more competitive, with the girls becoming sort of predators as well. It's ferocious. ”
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“ Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy. ”
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“ Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun. ”
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“ Doesn't Texas sometimes seem to resemble a country like Saudi Arabia, with its great heat, its oil wealth, its brimming houses of worship, and its weekly executions? ”
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“ It seems to me that you need a lot of courage, or a lot of something, to enter into others, into other people. We all think that everyone else lives in fortresses, in fastnesses: behind moats, behind sheer walls studded with spikes and broken glass. But in fact we inhabit much punier structures… ”
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“ Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn. ”
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“ Good sex is impossible to write about. Lawrence and Updike have given it their all, and the result is still uneasy and unsure. It may be that good sex is something fiction just can't do like dreams. Most of the sex in my novels is absolutely disastrous… ”
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“ Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black. We can't tell if it will survive us. But we can be sure that it's the last thing to go. ”
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“ Never content just to be, America is also obliged to mean; America signifies, hence its constant and riveting vulnerability to illusion. ”
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“ Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal. ”
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“ Is there any good reason why we cannot extend our multi-cultural generosity to include another dimension? That of time. The past, too, is another country. Its ghosts may look strange and frightening and slightly misshapen in body and mind, but all the more reason then, to welcome them to our shores. ”
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“ Never content just to be, America is also obliged to mean; America signifies, hence its constant and riveting vulnerability to illusion. ”
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“ Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal. ”
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