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"Quotes are echos of voices transporting wisdom, humor, and love. Returning again to the human condition, fleeting once more as a dove."
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"I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr."
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"Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars. They belong not to one system, one nation only, but to the universe. And just because they are so very far away, it is usually many years before their light is visible to the inhabitants of this earth."
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"Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. - It is not fair. - He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. - I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it - but fear I must."
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"This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant."
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"I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.'"
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"In our Impulsive nature to write and repulsive nature to read that has led to a decline in literary genius in our times!"
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"You could fire a machine gun randomly through the pages of Lord of the Rings and never hit any women."
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"I think that [William] Faulkner and I each had to escape certain particulars of our lives, and we found salvation through words. I understand the Bible story of Babel so much better now. I think that moments of extremity, desires of escape, lead us to foreign languages--not those learned in schools, but those plucked from the human heart, the searing conditions of isolation. I did not have to be limited to my biography because of words, and I shared this with Faulkner, who invented new words and punctuation and expression and worlds. He utterly reshaped the world."
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"Individuals often turn to poetry, not only to glean strength and perspective from the words of others, but to give birth to their own poetic voices and to hold history accountable for the catastrophes rearranging their lives."
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"Fictional people are people, too, otherwise why would we care what happens to them?"
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"Life is a web of intersections and choices. Your 1st choice is to recognize an intersection. Your 2nd choice is to be grateful for it."
Choice
"I like to go to Starbucks and watch the intellectuals. I observe them and their intellectualness. They in turn observe me drinking coffee and being a creeper."
Observation
"For any creative thought to be contagious, it must first be worthy of a sneeze."
Creativity
"I check every can of Barbasol I buy for dinosaur embryos. I haven't found any yet, as evidenced by the lack of T-Rex screams in my apartment."
Humor
"Never before have the tools of value creation been so great and the potential artisans so busy watching the Kardashians."
Society
"I've written for the waste basket so often that we've become friends. He writes too, but it's mostly garbage."
Creativity
"Never underestimate the collective strength of your weakest connections."
Networking
"A product in the marketplace is the result of thought in an inner space and action more than the common place."
Creativity
"The one thing all entrepreneurs have in common is that they started. The one thing everyone else has in common is that they haven't."
Entrepreneurship
"Quotes are echos of voices transporting wisdom, humor, and love. Returning again to the human condition, fleeting once more as a dove."
Literature
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