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"I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?"
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"Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory."
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"Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal."
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"To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost."
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"As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself."
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"I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in."
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"I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'."
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"He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow."
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"A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything."
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"Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous."
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"My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer."
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"I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs."
Thinking
"If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all."
Writing
"My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations."
Decision-Making
"It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away."
Life
"She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages."
Writing
"It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from."
Family
"Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age."
Age
"For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood."
Family
"The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning."
Writing
"I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again."
Writing
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