

“Men who start by burning books end by burning other men,”
― The Memory Police
― The Memory Police

“Gandhi, the champion of Indian freedom, is on one of his umpteenth hunger strikes.”
― The Diary of a Young Girl
― The Diary of a Young Girl

“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive, and will come forth later, in uglier ways. Sigmund Freud”
― The Silent Patient
― The Silent Patient

“A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes will ask himself at least four questions, thus: What am I trying to say? What words will express it? What image or idiom will make it clearer? Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?”
― Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content
― Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content

“I sit there and read on my Kindle while I wait for a fare. Hard to read a regular book once it gets dark, but the Kindle’s just fine. Great fucking invention, if you’ll pardon me for lapsing into my Native American tongue for a minute.”
― The Outsider
― The Outsider

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