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There are things you don't want to know you can do


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The story is always better than your ability to write it. My belief about this is that if you ever get to the point that you think you've done a story justice, you're in the wrong business.

The story is always better than your ability to write it. My belief about this is that if you ever get to the point that you think you've done a story justice, you're in the wrong business.



When they finished laughing they were on their way to being not just friends, but the dearest of friends, the sort of friends whose lives are shaped by the friendship.

When they finished laughing they were on their way to being not just friends, but the dearest of friends, the sort of friends whose lives are shaped by the friendship.



Because she was a princess she had a pegasus.

Because she was a princess she had a pegasus.



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The story is always better than your ability to write it.



I advise those who want to become writers to study veterinary medicine, which is easier. You don't want to be a writer unless you have no choice - and if you have no choice, good luck to you.

I advise those who want to become writers to study veterinary medicine, which is easier. You don't want to be a writer unless you have no choice - and if you have no choice, good luck to you.



My capacity for invention is flash hot stark, I thought. Sucker sunshade. Disembodied radar-reconnaissance. Not to mention Bitter Chocolate Death and Killer Zebras. Pity about the rest of me.

My capacity for invention is flash hot stark, I thought. Sucker sunshade. Disembodied radar-reconnaissance. Not to mention Bitter Chocolate Death and Killer Zebras. Pity about the rest of me.



Perhaps it is a human thing, to look upon such beauty and fail to encompass it.

Perhaps it is a human thing, to look upon such beauty and fail to encompass it.



[Harry] had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many novels when she was a small child.

[Harry] had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many novels when she was a small child.



It is a much more straightforward thing to be a dog, and a dog's love, once given, is not reconsidered.

It is a much more straightforward thing to be a dog, and a dog's love, once given, is not reconsidered.



The train is roaring toward you and the villain is twirling his moustache and you're fussing that he's tied you to the tracks with the wrong kind of rope.

The train is roaring toward you and the villain is twirling his moustache and you're fussing that he's tied you to the tracks with the wrong kind of rope.





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He thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one else he knows.

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I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it that's my religion.

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I think I'm equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the "Letters and Tomatoes" column, which is the fan mail part of MAD Magazine and an ongoing feature.



He loved her enough to know she was better off without him

He loved her enough to know she was better off without him



He that is surprized with the first frost feeles it all the winter after.

He that is surprized with the first frost feeles it all the winter after.



Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it.

Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it.



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The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself but when he plays the role destiny has for him.

The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself but when he plays the role destiny has for him.




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