T. C. Boyle Quotes
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
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Women drive box office.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
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The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.
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The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America.
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I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.
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I don't know anyone, from any class, who's had a perfectly easy life. I've met people born into wealthy families who feel like they didn't have much emotional support, and people who come from working-class families who had loads of love but no money.
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I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy.
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Geographically, Afghanistan is a good place for the terrorists, because it's surrounded by mountains, and there are lots of villages inside mountains, so it's easy for them to hide themselves, or to recruit the people. Whatever they want to do they will do.
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I should estimate that in my experience most troubles and most possibilities for improvement add up to the proportions something like this: 94% belongs to the system responsibility of management 6% special
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It's not very hard to be clever. It's far harder to be simple, obvious, and meaningful.
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Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.
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I'm a dog person; I've had dogs all my life.
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Life is tragic and absurd, and none of it has any purpose at all.
