"If you couldn't tell the difference between what hurt and what didn't, you had no business being alive. You can't have any good times if you can't tell."

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Source : Robert Stone (1997). “Dog Soldiers”, p.320, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Robert Stone

#Hurt Quotes #Differences Quotes #Alive Quotes

“My liveliest interest is not so much in things, as in relations of things. I have spent much time thinking about the alleged pseudo-relations that are called coincidences. What if some of them should not be coincidences?”

Source : Charles Fort (2008). “The Book of the Damned: The Collected Works of Charles Fort”, p.846, Penguin
“Susanne Alleyn's Game of Patience is a well-crafted historical mystery, authentic in every detail. Wonderfully entertaining.”
“Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide,- In part she is to blame that has been tried: He comes too near that comes to be denied.”
“Discussing religion was like discussing which cave will be better to live. If you want to follow a religion, follow any religion. It does not matter. If you have decided to commit suicide, does it matter how you do it?”
“I was the first Arts Council official in the archipelago to do something for what you might call indigenous music.”

Source : Scottish Review of Books Interview, www.scottishreviewofbooks.org. October 19, 2009.
“People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?”
“More than fantasy or even science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote horror, and like so many great horror writers he was himself utterly without fear, of anything. He wasn't afraid of looking uncool - he wasn't scared to openly love innocence, or to be optimistic, or to write sentimentally when he felt that way.”
“When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.”

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