"How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks."

-- Marcus Aurelius

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“In some deep place in her heart, Caroline had kept alive the silly romantic notion that somehow David Henry had once known her as no one else ever could. But it was not true. He had never even glimpsed her.”
“In choosing a course of action, it's best to take the tack of kindness.”
“Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all modern conveniences, distractions of all kinds, culture for all, the comfort of your dreams.”
“I'm a novelist, and idle speculation is what novelists do. How odd to spend one's life trying to pretend that non-existent people are real: though no odder, I suppose, than what government bureaucrats do, which is trying to pretend that real people are non-existent.”
“The distinction between what is real and what is imaginary is not one that can be finely maintained ... all existing thing are ... imaginary.”
“There were things out there in the world, things that vampires feared, and now those things were here. She was only seconds out of a very light, fitful sleep, but she knew that the nightmares had followed her effortlessly right into the real world. The draug. They werenâ€™t vampires; they were something else, something that moved through water, formed out of it, dragged vampires down to a slow and awful death.”
“Even if I don't have the money to take vocal lessons, I'll practice in the house by myself singing out loud.”
“The other day John McCain appeared on the show 'The View,' and one of the hosts accused McCain of being a liar. Yeah, she may have a point, because McCain started the interview by saying, 'Ladies, you look beautiful.'”

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