"Writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage."

-- Jonathan Carroll

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“Let me go on sleeping and I will lose myself in palaces of sand, and all the fantasies that I've been keeping will make the empty hours easier to stand.”
“The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.”
“Is there anything more terrible than perpetual motion, than doing and doing and doing, without a reason, without a consciousness, without a change, without an end?”

Source : T.H. White (2012). “The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King”, p.64, University of Texas Press
“I always seemed to fall in love with policemen.”
“We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and relatively. We must set ourselves vigorously about the task of improving them; and this task is now well begun.”
“My mother was always working for a job, so I guess I was always trained that I should have multiple jobs, multiple aspirations. And I remember she had multiple aspirations, always hearing about her dreams and things she did in the past and things she wanted to do.”
“Maybe it's wishful thinking, this snaggly faith of mine, or maybe it's Miles Davis saying, Don't play what's there, play what's not there.”

Source : "SPIN" Magazine, (p. 30), December 1990.
“I've been watching politics for 35 or 40 years and you just never know. You can have one person win the Iowa caucus and then the whole picture changes ten minutes later. The same thing can happen again after New Hampshire. I have no idea what's going to happen with our country in the future.”

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