Johnny Rich Quotes

So who is cruel? You, cruel reader, you are.
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Actors," he says, "should only be superficial on the surface.
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You know, sometimes I even envy myself.
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There’s no such thing as probability," she says, slowly, with minimal movement of her jaw. "Things turn out the way they do.
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He showed videotape of himself committing acts of self-violence and informing news crews that he had been assaulted by a marauding mob of irate art historians.
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To lose one parent might be considered a misfortune, or a reason to deny God’s existence at the least. To lose two looks like He may be up to something.
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Sometimes a butterfly flaps its wings and the weather turns out fine.
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That small difference made all the difference.
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So, my sweet, did it put the fun into funeral?
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I guarantee it will change your life, but only because everything does, however small.
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Genes do not make an individual homosexual. They play their part, but so does the rest of the universe.
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He’s a typical existentialist. And that’s a contradiction in terms if ever there was one.
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I’ve often been criticised, but never critically wounded
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Rejection is no badge of honour.
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Even Damocles developed a routine.
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Adam & Eve have been degraded, reduplicated forever, photocopies of photocopies, mistakes copied, magnified, augmented.
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As thoroughly as mankind has killed God, the reader has despatched the author.
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Nothing is over our heads if we hold them high enough.
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A thrilling story can be dull if told badly, but even the most mundane event can be elevated into a tale of epic scale by a good storyteller.
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Those who perpetrate stories must act cruelly.
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Anyone can be a story. Everyone is.
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Even when I press against him his presence is too far away.
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Being gay is not just what I do, but who I am. It is part of how I choose to live my life even if I never chose.
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Wouldn’t a no one do as well as a someone about whom nothing can be said?
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The only simple truth is that there is nothing simple in this complex universe. Everything relates. Everything connects
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The silence was pregnant with noise, with muted fury, with questions the father found too disgusting to frame and with answers to which the son was incapable of giving voice.
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Silent is an anagram of listen.
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Is cruelty still cruel if it is necessary? Is cruelty still cruel if it is part of a lie?
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These are the things you don’t say, even to someone you love.
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The bacteria of resentment bred: distance turned to distrust; distrust turned to bitterness; bitterness to hate, which is, after all, a kind of grievous love
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He did it because he could not help himself, which explains everything and nothing
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I don’t see big subjects as separate from little ones. Yes, you could trudge through life with great human tragedies played out before your eyes without ever taking notice. Or you could see a universe in the smallest thing. The way a person takes their coffee, for example, might say something profound and important about that person, about all humanity, about existence itself.
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To be motivated to write a novel, I need to be unable not to write.
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Good writing is more about graft and craft than inspiration and aspiration.
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To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
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He thought of hanging himself, to pass the time.
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Inhumanity is part of humanity as much as suffering is a part of stories. Cruelty is written in the human script.
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To reread a book is to read a different book. The reader is different. The meaning is different.
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I’m a bit-part actor in my own life
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Time passes. I drift in and out. As if I cease to be, until I remember to exist again.
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In the chain of events, it is arbitrary to be sentimental about the passing of any one link.
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Grief denied will surface in borrowed clothes, the mad, sad clothes of paranoia, fear or loneliness
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Who can say they saw a whole play or read a whole book? Each has their own experience, their own play, their own book
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Publishers are businesses and I don’t blame them for that. If they didn’t make money by publishing books, there wouldn’t be any books.
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A good book is not the same as a successful one.
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A novel must be judged on its merits, not on how hard the journey was to write it.
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Because he believed in himself, he believed what he did was important. Or maybe it was the other way around.
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All life is preoccupied with death. Death is the only certain future. Yet in the face of reason, everyone holds out hope for the highly improbable.
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An unpublished writer should doubt themselves. They should constantly wonder whether what they’re creating has merit. And then, having doubted, they should take up their pen and see if they can’t make it better.
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The future is certain. It is just not known.
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Suffering is inevitable. It is part of the human condition. It is written in the human script.
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I may not be free, but I’m not about to surrender the illusion of choice.
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Stories are just lies made to look like truth.
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Job understood that he was nothing more than God’s invention and so too was his suffering
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Is it murder to kill a man if the man never existed? To the man it is.
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Is the writer cruel that makes his characters suffer only to bring them to triumph or tragedy in the end?
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I know everything must be a lie, but I believe it anyway.
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I feel underslept but overjoyed. Nothing feels so good as this.
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Reality, it seems, is not a flat plane, but has as many veils as an onion has skins.
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For someone to be perfect, they must be real, however imperfect they are.
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