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"and then the answer comes to her: ALL broken hearts are circumstantial. every lovelorn jerk is the victim of bad timing, good intentions, and someone else's poor decision making." -Joshua Ferris
"For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?" -Fyodor Dostoevsky
"...et, quand elle exhala son dernier souffle, elle crut voir, dans les cieux entrouverts, un perroquet gigantesque, planant au-dessus de sa tête." -Gustave Flaubert
"Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them - if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry." -J.D. Salinger
"If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism." -Hunter S. Thompson
"Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation." -Janet Malcolm
"Writers are always selling somebody out." -Joan Didion
