"Olive Kitteridge' is a masterpiece: The writing is so perfect you don't even notice it; the story is so vivid it's less like reading a story than experiencing it firsthand."

-- Melissa Bank

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“The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.”
“Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.”
“Like other countries in the world, China must uphold its own sovereignty, territorial integrity and development interests. At the same time, we are willing to properly handle differences and disagreements in state-to-state relations.”

Source : The Wall Street Journal Interview, www.wsj.com. January 18, 2011.
“I have my own worries and concerns and frustrations, but I'm doing something I love to do. My wife and kids are in good shape. What is there not to be happy about?”
“I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative history.”

Source : "Likely lads' return" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2004.
“When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?”
“If you spend too long trying to avoid death, you will be dead in at least one way.”
“Whoever came up with "hold the shift key for eight seconds to turn on 'your keyboard is buggered' mode" should be shot.”

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