"I always begin [a novel] with outlines, but they change and so do my endings and beginnings."

#Novel Quotes #Outlines Quotes

“Not only did I rediscover every experience of my life, I had to live each unfulfilled desire as wellâ€”as though theyâ€™d been fulfilled. I saw that what transpires in the mind is just as real as any flesh and blood occurrence. What had only been imagination in life, now became tangible, each fantasy a full reality. I lived them allâ€”while, at the same time, standing to the side, a witness to their, often, intimate squalor. A witness cursed with total objectivity.”
“Personally, I just got one of these Vonage IP phones. It's actually pretty cool. It comes with one of these Cisco ATA routers where you just plug an analog handset in.”
“The reality is that the workforce relative to the number of people retired has shrunk and today in America there are only 3.3 working Americans paying payroll taxes to support each individual currently retired and collecting Social Security taxes.”
“The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation.”
“Being with my family is my highest priority.”
“Life, what is it but a dream?”
“There can be no doubt that the knowledge of logic is of considerable practical importance for everyone who desires to think and to infer correctly.”
“Pride measures prosperity not by her own advantages but by the disadvantages of others. She would not even wish to be a goddess unless there were some wretches left whom she could order about and lord it over, whose misery would make her happiness seem all the more extraordinary, whose poverty can be tormented and exacerbated by a display of her wealth. This infernal serpent, pervading the human heart, keeps men from reforming their lives, holding them back like a suckfish.”

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