76 Quotes by Robert Stone

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    Like many visitors, they had been unnerved by the inimitable creepiness of the Holy Sepulchre, a grimly gaudy, theopathical Turkish bathhouse where their childhood saints glared like demented spooks from every moldering wall.

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    My optimism? Where I grew up our principal cultural expression was the funeral. Whatever keeps me going, it isn’t optimism.

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    I think everybody must be aware that this society is a whole lot shakier now than it was before the war. I was trying to examine, in 'Dog Soldiers,' the process of that blow falling on America.

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    It's easy to create a country, all you have to do is to think of a name for it.

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