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The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero.

~Mary Mccarthy

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

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Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.

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I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.

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Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

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I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets.

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Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the.

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People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.

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Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.

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We are the hero of our own story.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: June 21st, 1912

Died: October 25th, 1989

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