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“During the years he was never sick, except of course for the chronic indigestion which was universal, and still is, with men who live alone, cook for themselves, and eat in solitude.”
“In human affairs of danger and delicacy successful conclusion is sharply limited by hurry.”
“Sexuality with all its attendant yearnings and pains, jealousies and taboos, is the most disturbing impulse humans have.”
“It's because I haven't courage,' said Samuel. 'I could never quite take the responsibility. When the Lord God did not call my name, I might have called his name - but I did not. There you have the ...”
“Tom's cowardice was as huge as his courage, as it must be in great men.”
“Perhaps it takes courage to raise children..”
“Cathy's lies were never innocent. Their purpose was to escape punishment, or work, or responsibility, and they were used for profit. Most liars are tripped up either because they forget what they h...”
“Cathy did not forget her lies, and she developed the most effective method of lying. She stayed close enough to the truth so that one could never be sure. She knew two other methods alsoeither to i...”
“Her total intellectual association was the Bible, except the talk of Samuel and her children, and to them she did not listen. In that one book she had her history and her poetry, her knowledge of p...”
“The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a different facet of the same thing. But surely they were both intended to a...”
“A man can do a lot of damage in the church. When someone comes here, he's got his guard up. But in church a man's wide open.”
“Some people think its an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well.”
“Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.”
“You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.”
“Will liked to live so that no one could find fault with him, and to do that he had to live as nearly like other people as possible.”
“The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul?”
“I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one, that has frightened and inspired us, so that we live in a Pearl White serial of continuing thought and wonder. Humans are caught - in t...”
“...evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.”
“If a story is not about the hearer he [or she] will not listen . . . A great lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange and foreign is not interesting--only the deeply persona...”
“And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen. And I here make a rule - a great and lasting story is about everyone or it will not ...”
