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What do Americans know about ...

What do Americans know about morality? They don't want their presidents to have penises but they don't mind if their presidents covertly arrange to support the Nicaraguan rebel forces after Congress has restricted such aid; they don't want their presidents to deceive their wives but they don't mind if their presidents deceive Congress- lie to the people and violate the people's constitution!

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A woman half dressed seemed t...

A woman half dressed seemed to have some power, but a man was simply not as handsome as when he was naked, and not as secure as when he was clothed.

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I am doomed to remember a boy...

I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice. Not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God. I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.

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Is it a democratic society th...

Is it a democratic society that condemns people to the accident of conception? What are we-monkeys? If you expect people to be responsible for their children, you have to give them the right to choose whether or not to have children. What are you people thinking of? You're not only crazy! You're ogres!

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… but only because exhaustion...

… but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human.

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Writing is hard. I learned ho...

Writing is hard. I learned how to work hard from wrestling, not English courses.

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A writer's job is to imagine ...

A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.

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Human sexuality makes farcica...

Human sexuality makes farcical our most serious intentions.

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It is your responsibility to ...

It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don't expect me to change.

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…there was no more safety to ...

…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.

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It's not right to hurt or dec...

It's not right to hurt or deceive someone who's already been hurt and deceived.

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And when you love a book, com...

And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won't forget the language of the story that moved you to tears.

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Everybody dies … The thing is...

Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.

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You only grow by coming to th...

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

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Life is an X-rated soap opera...

Life is an X-rated soap opera.

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Half my life is an act of rev...

Half my life is an act of revision; more than half the act is performed with small changes.

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I feel more a part of the wre...

I feel more a part of the wrestling community than I feel I belong to the community of arts and letters. Why? Because wrestling requires even more dedication than writing because wrestling represents the most difficult and rewarding objective that I have ever dedicated myself to; because wrestling and wrestling coaches are among the most disciplined and self-sacrificing people I have ever known.

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All the unimaginative asshole...

All the unimaginative assholes in the world who imagine that Shakespeare couldn't have written Shakespeare because it was impossible from what we know about Shakespeare of Stratford that such a man would have had the experience to imagine such things - well, this denies the very thing that separates Shakespeare from almost every other writer in the world: an imagination that is untouchable and nonstop.

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'The Fourth Hand' was a novel...

'The Fourth Hand' was a novel that came from twenty years of screenwriting concurrently with whatever novel I'm writing.

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But who can distinguish betwe...

But who can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of the imagination.

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