"You find when you're writing a detective story that you're actually not trying to solve anything. You're trying to stop the reader from solving the puzzle."

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Christopher Bollen

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“It is simply absurd to say you believe, or even want to believe, in Him, if you do not do anything He tells you.”
“But people as a rule believe only what they want to believe, and if you tell them anything else they'll call you a trouble-maker and get rid of you and never give you your job back, even if what you said is proved spot on right by time.”

Source : Dick Francis (2004). “10 lb Penalty”, p.21, Penguin
“Sometimes when I'm bored, I like to people watch. And I got to a touristy area and I play this game I just made up. I call it Lesbian or Midwestern?”
“The devil is not fighting religion. HeÂ´s too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it.”
“Yes, I am old enough to grow a beard actually. So ner-ner-ner-ner”
“In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe that in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality around the world.”

Source : Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn (2009). “Half the Sky”, p.17, Vintage
“I can't make you love me, but you can't keep me from loving you.”
“I had a lot of friends in high school and in college, and we had a good time.”

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