Top 85 Johnny Rich Quotes
#1. I've often been criticised, but never critically wounded
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#2. This pain is comfort. It is the solace of physicality, like a touch.
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#3. The bacteria of resentment bred: distance turned to distrust; distrust turned to bitterness; bitterness to hate, which is, after all, a kind of grievous love
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#4. An unpublished writer should doubt themselves. They should constantly wonder whether what they're creating has merit. And then, having doubted, they should take up their pen and see if they can't make it better.
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#5. Suffering is inevitable. It is part of the human condition. It is written in the human script.
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#6. I stare out at the real world projected on the windows
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#7. To talk of probability is to suggest that events might happen differently from the way they do, whereas events themselves will unfold according to an inevitable path.
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#9. I may not be free, but I'm not about to surrender the illusion of choice.
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#10. He did it because he could not help himself, which explains everything and nothing
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#11. To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
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#12. Sometimes a butterfly flaps its wings and the weather turns out fine.
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#13. Inhumanity is part of humanity as much as suffering is a part of stories. Cruelty is written in the human script.
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#14. Even when I press against him his presence is too far away.
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#15. So, my sweet, did it put the fun into funeral?
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#17. As thoroughly as mankind has killed God, the reader has despatched the author.
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#18. Genes do not make an individual homosexual. They play their part, but so does the rest of the universe.
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#19. I guarantee it will change your life, but only because everything does, however small.
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#20. To be motivated to write a novel, I need to be unable not to write.
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#21. There is a distinction between a relationship which has a routine and a relationship which becomes routine
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#22. Publishers are businesses and I don't blame them for that. If they didn't make money by publishing books, there wouldn't be any books.
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#23. The human genome is a script, waiting for the amino actors, the protein players to strut and fret their hour.
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#24. To lose one parent might be considered a misfortune, or a reason to deny God's existence at the least. To lose two looks like He may be up to something.
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#25. The only simple truth is that there is nothing simple in this complex universe. Everything relates. Everything connects
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#26. The future is certain. It is just not known.
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#27. He showed videotape of himself committing acts of self-violence and informing news crews that he had been assaulted by a marauding mob of irate art historians.
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#28. You inherit your environment just as much as your genes.
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#29. There's no such thing as probability," she says, slowly, with minimal movement of her jaw. "Things turn out the way they do.
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#30. Read the book of life or a life in a book: it's all epigraphs and anagrams.
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#31. He thought of hanging himself, to pass the time.
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#33. In every cell in every body in every living thing, strings of words make sentences, meanings locked together
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#34. People don't always want quality. A good book is not always successful and a successful one is not always good.
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#35. We stand in black to watch this rite performed, the body in the box, the box in the hole, the dirt on the box.
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#37. Stories are just lies made to look like truth.
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#38. Wouldn't a no one do as well as a someone about whom nothing can be said?
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#39. I can make another list because the choice is mine. A list of what to do. So I won't be listless ever again.
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#40. Being gay is not just what I do, but who I am. It is part of how I choose to live my life even if I never chose.
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#41. The characters act for reasons that they can't control and, as readers, we have to believe in their motivations, their sense of choice and in the reality of their suffering, even though, deep down, we know it's all just puppetry on the part of the writer.
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#42. I feel underslept but overjoyed. Nothing feels so good as this.
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#43. To reread a book is to read a different book. The reader is different. The meaning is different.
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#44. Job understood that he was nothing more than God's invention and so too was his suffering
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#45. One thing, however, is certain in life. No one survives it.
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#47. Everything has reasons, even if they're not good ones. And the reasons have reasons.
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#48. That small difference made all the difference.
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#49. You know, sometimes I even envy myself.
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#50. Those who perpetrate stories must act cruelly.
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#51. For someone to be perfect, they must be real, however imperfect they are.
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#52. Like all fiction, my lies are just my efforts to be truer than the truth.
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#53. He's a typical existentialist. And that's a contradiction in terms if ever there was one.
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#54. It would be both an identical work of art only by virtue of its difference. The same but different, he suggested, like twins.
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#55. Actors," he says, "should only be superficial on the surface.
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#56. Leo is looking down. Leo is looking down and his eyes and skin and hair like dark melted chocolate and he's saying to me, "Hello.
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#57. Genes do not make you, any more than brain chemistry makes you hungry, food makes you breathe, breathing makes you die.
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#58. Adam & Eve have been degraded, reduplicated forever, photocopies of photocopies, mistakes copied, magnified, augmented.
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#59. These are the things you don't say, even to someone you love.
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#60. But why should he be open-minded when he thinks he's right?
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#61. A novel must be judged on its merits, not on how hard the journey was to write it.
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#62. I know everything must be a lie, but I believe it anyway.
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#63. In the chain of events, it is arbitrary to be sentimental about the passing of any one link.
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#64. Is the writer cruel that makes his characters suffer only to bring them to triumph or tragedy in the end?
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#65. Is it murder to kill a man if the man never existed? To the man it is.
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#66. The human genome is a life written in a book where every word has been written before. A story endlessly rehearsed.
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#67. The silence was pregnant with noise, with muted fury, with questions the father found too disgusting to frame and with answers to which the son was incapable of giving voice.
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#68. All life is preoccupied with death. Death is the only certain future. Yet in the face of reason, everyone holds out hope for the highly improbable.
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#69. A good book is not the same as a successful one.
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#70. Nothing's random. Even if it looks that way, it's just because you don't know the causes.
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#71. So who is cruel? You, cruel reader, you are.
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#72. Reality, it seems, is not a flat plane, but has as many veils as an onion has skins.
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#73. You need to bridge the gap between reality and freedom. Drugs are the bridge.
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#74. Doing nothing was as honourable as any available course of action. Think of Hamlet, think of Job, think of Jesus before Pilate.
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#75. Is cruelty still cruel if it is necessary? Is cruelty still cruel if it is part of a lie?
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#76. Can we say, in this case, that the cause of a cause is the relevant cause?
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#77. It is a matter of mere coincidence that there is often a real individual who corresponds with a celebrity, signifies them.
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#78. A thrilling story can be dull if told badly, but even the most mundane event can be elevated into a tale of epic scale by a good storyteller.
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#79. Nothing is over our heads if we hold them high enough.
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#80. Grief denied will surface in borrowed clothes, the mad, sad clothes of paranoia, fear or loneliness
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#81. Time passes. I drift in and out. As if I cease to be, until I remember to exist again.
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#82. Because he believed in himself, he believed what he did was important. Or maybe it was the other way around.
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#83. Good writing is more about graft and craft than inspiration and aspiration.
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#84. Who can say they saw a whole play or read a whole book? Each has their own experience, their own play, their own book
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#85. His suffering was no more real than he was.
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