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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When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.

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you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

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The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.

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Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

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Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other three percent are people who do what they say they can do.

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stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.

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We lie best when we lie to 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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