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• It was what you did, Wolgast understood; you started to tell a story about who you were, and soon enough the lies were all you had and you became that person.

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  Lying, Soon Enough, Deceit

  Justin Cronin (2010). “The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.129, Ballantine Books

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• I was a 'Planet of the Apes'-obsessed kid.

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  Kids, Apes, Obsessed

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• He breathed once more, holding the air in his chest, as if it were not air but something more--a sweet taste of freedom, of all cares lifted, everything over and done.

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  Sweet, Air, Done

  Justin Cronin (2010). “The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.666, Ballantine Books

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• I was very much a child of the Cold War.

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  Children, War, Cold

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• I think many years ago I got on a bus in L.A. and drove around to see the stars' homes, but that's the extent of my direct experience in Hollywood.

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  Stars, Home, Thinking

  "Inside Justin Cronin's 'The Passage'". Interview with Christian Duchateau, www.cnn.com. May 15, 2011.

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• I saw my one purpose in that moment, looking into that little girls eyes. I was the one who was meant to save her, that was my one purpose all this time.

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  Girl, Eye, Purpose

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• The sadness you feel is not your own. It's his sadness you feel in your heart, Amy, for missing you.

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  Heart, Sadness, Missing

  Justin Cronin (2010). “The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.685, Ballantine Books

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• She remembered no one at all. She remembered one day thinking: I am alone. There is no I but I. She lived in the dark. She taught herself to walk in the light, though it was not easy.

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  Dark, Thinking, Light

  Justin Cronin (2010). “The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.350, Ballantine Books

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• It was possible, he understood, for a person's life to become just a long series of mistakes, and that the end, when it came, was just one more mistake in a chain of bad choices. The thing was, most of these mistakes were actually borrowed from other people. You took their bad ideas, and for whatever reason, made them your own.

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  Mistake, Ideas, Long

  "The Passage". Book by Justin Cronin, 2010.

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• Before she became the Girl from Nowhere-the One Who Walked In, the First and Last and Only, who lived a thousand years-she was just a little girl in Iowa, named Amy. Amy Harper Bellafonte.

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  Girl, Years, Iowa

  Justin Cronin (2010). “The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.3, Ballantine Books

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• When you write, you take the ball and you hold it up to the light and you turn it slowly, and let people draw their own conclusions. And try to bring empathy to all sides of the equation.

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  Writing, Light, People

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• I'm an ecumenical reader, grew up with all sorts of fiction, teach writing, went to the Iowa Writers' Workshop, so my tastes and interests are broad.

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  Writing, Iowa, Fiction

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• That literary-popular distinction is, in my view, vastly overstated. At the far poles there are clearly books that are purely commercial and purely literary, written for audiences that want to see the same thing enacted over and over and over again. But the middle is where most people read and most people write.

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  Book, Writing, Views

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• Here she was, a women who could bolt-load a crossbow in under a second, put half a dozen long arrows in the air in fewer than five, blade a target dead through the sweet spot at six meters, on the run, on an off day; and yet knitting a pair of baby booties seemed completely beyond her power.

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  Running, Baby, Sweet

  Justin Cronin (2010). “The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.436, Ballantine Books

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• My inventing time is all done under the influence of aerobic exercise. Basically, I do all my thinking while I run.

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  Running, Exercise, Thinking

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• The military was all about hierarchies, who urinated highest on the hydrant

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  Military, Hierarchy, Highest

  Justin Cronin (2012). “The Twelve (Book Two of The Passage Trilogy): A Novel (Book Two of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.79, Ballantine Books

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• The fact is, there's a great deal of hair-splitting fussiness when it comes to fly-fishing, most of it as silly as a top hat.

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  Silly, Lakes, Hair

  Justin Cronin (2004). “The Summer Guest”, p.82, Dial Press

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• So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.

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  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• Don't we all deserve forgiveness? I hope we do; I believe we do. Forgiveness says as much about the character of the person bestowing it as the person receiving it. Learning to forgive may be the most difficult of human acts,and the closest thing to divinity, whatever you decide that is.

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  Believe, Character, Forgiving

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• The world was a world of dreaming souls who could not die.

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  Dream, Soul, World

  Justin Cronin (2010). “The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.351, Ballantine Books

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• I'm a workmanlike writer. I show up every day and treat it like a job. The old rule that writing is like any other job, the first rule is that you must show up. I'm at the keyboard from 9 to 4 every day.

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  Jobs, Writing, Keyboards

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• I tend to start at 9 o'clock in the morning and write until 3. Those are my best hours. They fit the other rhythms of the world. So I write for six hours, pretty much without any breaks.

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  Morning, Writing, World

  "Inside Justin Cronin's 'The Passage'". Interview with Christian Duchateau, www.cnn.com. May 15, 2011.

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• I came to Houston for a job, the reason most people move halfway across the country with a first grader and a five-week-old. I came here to teach at Rice.

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  Country, Jobs, Moving

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• One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of book again and again. That is fine if it is what you want to do, but I would rather be locked in the trunk of my car with a weasel than write the same book every three years until I die.

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  Book, Writing, Years

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• You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide.

  Justin Cronin

  Book, Reading, Writing

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