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"Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you."
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"Not everything set on fire will rise."
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"I claim not to have controlled events but confess plainly that events have controlled me."
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"You're too old for fairy tales, Baasen said."
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"A thing can be fine on paper but utterly crummy in the field."
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"By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life."
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"There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened."
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"The real world is oftentimes different from what you expect it to be, what you think it to be, and what people might say it to be."
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"Children, our lives have been gongs striking; clamour and boasting; cries of despair; blows on the nape of the neck in gardens."
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"A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen."
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"But, Henry, this is wicked!' But, Adam, the world is wicked. Maoris prey on Moriori, Whites prey on darker-hued cousins, fleas prey on mice, cats prey on rats, Christians on infidels, first mates on cabin boys, Death on the Living. 'The weak are meat, the strong do eat."
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"Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you."
Reality
"Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help."
Help
"In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it."
Praise
"Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics."
Society
"In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future."
Family
"When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth."
Family
"Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people."
Family
"My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall."
People
"Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children."
Family
"I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less."
Love
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