"It's kind of strange-- in fiction you get to tell lies and are applauded for it."

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Source : Robert James Waller (2009). “Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend”, p.43, Hachette UK

Robert James Waller

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“I'm surrendering myself to the realities of the Internet.”
“It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.”
“I don't have a hateful bone in my body. I don't believe anyone should be bullied or made to feel bad about who they are.”
“No' is the second shortest word in the English language, but one of the hardest to say.”

Source : "The Power of 'No'” by Raymond J. Arroyo, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 9, 2012.
“When it kind of went to 'Street Fighter', where you had to push 13 buttons with all 13 of your fingers and ripped the spine out of somebody, you know, violent games lost the women. Complexity lost the casual gamer.”
“I think for most new kids itâ€™s important to sound different from the rest, to have your own sound, to be able to produce something thatâ€™s not there yet . . . If you want to be unique and you want to be a big DJ, create your own style, create your own signature.”
“Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.”
“When we consider that each of us has only one life to live, isnâ€™t it rather tragic to find men and women, with brains capable of comprehending the stars and the planets, talking about the weather; men and women, with hands capable of creating works of art, using those hands only for routine tasks; men and women, capable of independent thought, using their minds as a bowling-alley for popular ideas; men and women, capable of greatness, wallowing in mediocrity; men and women, capable of self-expression, slowly dying a mental death while they babble the confused monotone of the mob?”

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