Charles Locks

Author:
Greater Trouble in the Lesser Antilles,
Low Jinks on the High Seas,
Epic Trials in the Leeward Isles

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Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always/Michael Crichton

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A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things/Herman Melville

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History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living/Lawrence Durrell

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Love, it turns out, is as undemocratic as money, so it accumulates around people who have plenty of it already: the sane, the healthy, the lovable/Nick Hornby

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Interesting that in the oh-so politically correct present "white male" is now as impertinent as Spic, Wop, Kike, Mick, and Nigger.

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If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one/Edgar Rice Burroughs

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Language fits over experience like a straight jacket/William Golding

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Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life/Irving Stone

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I read the fuck out of every book I can get my hands on/Nick Hornby

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Hope is only man's mistrust of the clear foresight of his mind/Paul Valéry

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I found when I followed the driveway around to the back that behind its imposing front it was just another tract house, as if the architect had tried to combine a southern plantation mansion with the slave quarters/Ross MacDonald

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So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you've any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats/Tom Robbins

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Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without/Jane Austen

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Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs/Robin Williams

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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear/Ben Jonson

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I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives/John le Carré

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What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done/Arthur Conan Doyle

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Life just wants to be; but it doesn't want to be much/Bill Bryson

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But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself/Milan Kundera

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The greater their ignorance, the stronger their opinions/Ken Follett