There is an argument for believing that the entire process of writing a piece of fiction is simply a thinly-controlled and highly-internalised nervous breakdown designed, with a bit of luck, to produce something worthwhile at the end.

David Hewson


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After which, he visited the wife of that fool Wallace and spent midnight till dawn bouncing her from one end of the mattress to the other.

David Hewson


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We spent today sending men to hell. What's more natural than to pass the night dreaming of procreating a few more to take their place?

David Hewson

Stichwörter: life war death sex



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You speak as if this is a good world with a little evil in it. Rubbish. It's a hellish one where the best a man can do is put a little sanity back and look after his own.

David Hewson

Stichwörter: life self good-and-evil



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A nation's not a child, for God's sake. ... It's like a wild horse you tame by breaking it. Or a fiery woman you slap till she sees sense and warms your bed.

David Hewson

Stichwörter: humor nationalism sex taming



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It's a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again.

David Hewson

Stichwörter: humor traveling traveling-alone



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The only sheets I'll ever long for are my own.

David Hewson

Stichwörter: sex fidelity infidelity cheating



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I've no need of reasons. The doing's enough.'

Well said for once, the girl thought. The doing was everything.

David Hewson

Stichwörter: doing actions-over-words



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And still you'll hesitate to tell him, won't you? Why? Because you're a woman? Is your destiny such a small thing then? To keep your legs open and your mouth shut?

David Hewson

Stichwörter: woman feminism destiny sexual-objectification



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There are no secrets.' The thing smiled, showing a row of even, childlike teeth. 'None worth keeping. Only the ones you hide from yourself, which are the most damaging and hurtful of all. Truth is truth, and lie is lie. Tell yourself one's the other and all the world turns kilter.

David Hewson

Stichwörter: truth lies lying-to-ourselves



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