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All Quotes Collection
"Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return."
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"Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy."
41
"Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered."
46
"Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about."
50
"In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one."
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"I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street."
Love,
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"Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel."
44
"If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away."
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"My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain."
55
"Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest."
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"Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do."
Want,
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"No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted."
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"The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind."
238
"Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession."
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"Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist."
35
"If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me."
41
"Obama was 200 percent advertising. I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I am in a different world than the fashion industry. I am with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Madonna. I build me as a celebrity."
36
"I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true."
39
"I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores."
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"Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of prehistorical speculation rather than simple historical fact to weave my stories around."
39
"From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me."
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