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Life is a slow-motion avalanche, and none of us are steering.

— Donald E. Westlake Blogcritics interview (2007)

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In order to hold your faith intact be sure it's kept unsullied by fact.

Don't Ask (1993)

Eyes wide and blank as the buttons on a first Communion coat.

Ask the Parrot (2006)

I believe my subject is bewilderment. But I could be wrong.

If Chester had a failing, it was that he believed people were what they thought they were.

The Hunter (1962)

Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten.

Two Much (1975)

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Laby'rinth's single clue:
Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true.

Richard Francis Burton The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

It is the law of life that if you are kind to someone you feel happy. If you are cruel you are unhappy. And if you hurt someone, you will be hurt back.

Cary Grant Love – That’s All Cary Grant Ever Thinks About (1964)

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