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Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Caught Duty Endlessly Enemies
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You have to stay faithful to what you're working on.

Faithful Stay Working You
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Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

Fiction Inside Lie Truth
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You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Chair Deny Down Favorite
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Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Busy Dying Get Living
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French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

Dirt French Language Romance
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People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.

Boy Desk Gross Heart
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It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

Achieves Better Cost Evil
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The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
Innocent Liar Most Tool
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The devil's voice is sweet to hear.

Devil Hear Sweet Voice
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Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Cheaper Hard Hard Work Individual
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No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.

Author Busy Closely Coming
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Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
Each Immortality Life Makes
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We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

Cope Help Horrors Make
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I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

Be Prepared Funny Guess Houses
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The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

Feet Made Mattered Never
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I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

Back Been Cried Damaged
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If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
Read Time Tools Write
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In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

Noses People Scent Small
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People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.

Boy Correct Desk Glass
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We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

About Any Basic Basic Elements
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I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

Any Dad Had He
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I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish.

Enough Good Had Might
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We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.

Culture Economics Interested Manufacturing
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I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.
Bed Being Home I Can
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You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.

Clicks Else Going Happen
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But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

Experiences I Think Life Places
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That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.

Accidental Almost Beginning Career
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And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

Better Daily Daily Lives Finer
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I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

Always Blessed Feel Hours
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Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.
Again Always Around Come
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Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

Always American Away Deadly
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A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

Bear Beauty Beholder Children
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It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

About Awesome Concept Consider
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If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.

Above Around Aware Lot
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Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

Bad Book Books Every
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You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

Away Been Cannot Done
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Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.

Face Feels Fit High
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And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.

Always Endings Happy Life
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And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that's what we're supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react.

Actually Always Because Been
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I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

Crime Ghosts I Love Love
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I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.

Acknowledge America Apologize Being
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Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Ghosts Inside Live Monsters
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You have been praying for your leaders and their families, it's time you pray for yourself and your family; you too deserve to live.

Praying Leaders Families Pray
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The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
Key Priorities Prioritize Schedule
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The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.

Acknowledge Approach Correct Instantly
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Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.
Achieve Fantasy Goals Plan
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Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

Carrying Discipline Effective First
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Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

Awareness Change Choose Conscience
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I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach.
Believe Coach Football Football Coach
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