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“James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history and history in trapped in them.”
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“You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.”
Source : "Di wasn't a great beauty" by Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2005.
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“Why do I have to do this?" Gator demanded. Cuz you're such a pretty boy. Our photographer isn't going to fall for one of us as the tied up model," Nico pointed out. Dumbest plan you've ever come up with," Gator rumbled. "Offering myself all trussed up like a Christmas turkey to a serial killer who likes to torture people isn't too smart.”
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“We have voluntarily agreed to let an invisible government sift the data and high-spot the outstanding issues so that our field of choice shall be narrowed to practical proportions. From our leaders and the media they use to reach the public, we accept the evidence and the demarcation of issues bearing upon public questions; from some ethical teacher, be it a minister, a favorite essayist, or merely prevailing opinion, we accept a standardized code of social conduct to which we conform most of the time.”
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“Staying engaged with God is absolutely essential for getting through a tough time.”
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“A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.”
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“Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel to show they could compete with the best. If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he would definitely have written at least one thriller.”
Source : "Jo Nesbø: 'If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he'd have written a thriller'". Interview with John Crace, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2012.
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“The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing; if ill-packed, next to nothing.”
Source : Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.298