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There's no remaking reality... Just take it as it comes. Hold your ground and take it as it comes. There's no other way.
Everyman
There is truth and then again there is truth. For all that the world is full of people who go around believing they've got you or your neighbor figured out, there really is no bottom to what is not known. The truth about us is endless. As are the lies.
The Human Stain
I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and turn it around again...
Ghost Writer
You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.
Portnoy's Complaint
We leave a stain, we leave a trail, we leave our imprint. Impurity, cruelty, abuse, error, excrement, semen - there�s no other way to be here. Nothing to do with disobedience. Nothing to do with grace or salvation or redemption. It�s in everyone. Indwelling. Inherent. Defining. The stain that is there before its mark.
The Human Stain
Actually we did not have the feelings we said we had until we spoke them--at least I didn't; to phrase them was to invent them and own them.
Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories
No matter how much you know, no matter how much you think, no matter how much you plot and you connive and you plan, you're not superior to sex. It's a very risky game. A man wouldn't have two-thirds of the problems he has if he didn't venture off to get fucked. It's sex that disorders our normally ordered lives.
The Dying Animal
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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