... When editors were flattered, they would sometimes give in on some of their mad ideas.
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Zum Autor"She might have been pretty when she started out, but the world had moved on since then."
"But there are weak men who can lift cars if their wives are pinned underneath. The brain, Garraty.' McVries's voice had dropped to a hoarse whisper. 'It isn’t man or God. It’s something...In the brain."
"There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the truth was utterly alien to them . . . And then there were people who lied because they were waiting for it to be time to tell the truth."
"Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest."
"The eyes were damned, the staring, glaring eyes of one who sees but does not see, eyes ever turned inward to the sterile hell of dreams beyond control, dreams unleashed, risen out of the stinking swamps of the unconscious."
"I don't want to see it anymore. It's lousy. And it's a cheat. You build it all around something... Set yourself on something... And then you don't want it. Isn't it too bad the great truths are all such lies?"