The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

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I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.

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Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.

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Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.

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Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically.

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I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling

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The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

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Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

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Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

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Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences.

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