Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.

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What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.

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When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.

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Love isn't soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.

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People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

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I think reality is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and light and motion to hide that thinness from ourselves.

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Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

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I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.

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The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

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Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.

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