"Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion."

-- Arnold Bennett

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“I'm ruined beyond repair, is what I fear...And if so, in time we'd both be wretched and bitter." "I know people can be mended. Not all, and some more immediately than others. But some can be. I don't see why not you." "Why not me?”
“People have to eat and it's good to have a last-resort dole they can turn to.”
“Don't beat yourself. That's the worst kind of defeat you'll ever suffer.”
“I love smoking. I miss it every day of my life. If I found out that it didn't cause cancer, I would go out and buy, like, eight cartons right now.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Writing makes a map, and there is something about a journey that begs to have its passage marked.”

Source : Christina Baldwin (1991). “Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest”, Bantam
“I've got to think about what I'm going to say very carefully. There's two avenues of thought: Do you stop everyone going, ban all the artists coming in from Russia? But then you're really leaving the men and women who are gay and suffering under the antigay laws in an isolated situation. As a gay man, I can't leave those people on their own without going over there and supporting them. I don't know what's going to happen, but I've got to go.”
“The least glimmering or shade of acting, in man or woman, is a sure motive of envy in the rest; and, if their malice can't persuade the town's-people into a dislike of their performance, they'll cruelly endeavor to taint their characters ...”
“I ran track, and basically played every sport.”

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