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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."
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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
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"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."
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"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."
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"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."
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"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."
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"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"
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"I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one."
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"I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after."
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"A lot of people got lost in Hollywood while trying to become a star. They lost themselves."
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"The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are?"
Meaning
"Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough."
Time
"To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself."
Fool
"The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught."
Character
"I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?"
Question
"I love New Orleans physically. I love the trees and the balmy air and the beautiful days. I have a beautiful house here."
Love
"I do want to go another way - to write something completely different."
Want
"I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out."
Work
"Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds."
Knowledge
"It is tragic that many in America think of us - Christians - as being people who hate others."
People
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