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"He'd had the foresight to know that a lot of the savages wear store-bought clothes."
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"Dickens writes that one of his characters, "listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business."
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"The answers to your problems lie all around you. The keys to your self-discovery are waiting to be found in each sunset, each pair of eyes, each breath of fresh air. Listen to the symphony of life and you will hear yourself. Find the beauty of nature and you have found your soul."
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"The thirty-plus years of marriage between the ceiling and the cement plaster showed signs of weakness by frequently developing cracks and holes."
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"Generally, there is a lot of truth value in stepping back, observing, then logically generalizing the extremes of what you see."
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"People just weren't interesting. Maybe they weren't supposed to be. But animals, birds, even insects were. I couldn't understand it."
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"It's strange to see people you don't know well in the morning, with sleepy eyes and pillow creases in their cheeks."
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"I give her my best smile. Before the alien Armageddon happened, I was known for my smile. Not bragging too much, but I had to be careful never to smile while I drove. It had the capacity to blind oncoming traffic. But it has absolutely no effect on Ringer. She doesn't squint in its overwhelming luminescence. She doesn't even blink."
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"If I were to draw, I would apply myself only to studying the form of inanimate objects,' I said somewhat imperiously, because I wanted to change the subjects and also because a natural inclination does truly lead me to recognise my moods in the motionless suffering of things."
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"The whole of the world could be deduced from the smallest grain of sand, if one studied it closely enough."
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"Huh," said Percy. "Never seen Jason fly before. He looks like a blond superman."
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"If you want the law to leave you alone, keep your hair trimmed and your boots shined."
Society

"Now, tomorrow Miss Laurie McCrae and me, we have an appointment with a sky pilot who will make it proper for us to travel in double harness."
Adventure

"All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I."
Nature

"People have a greater tolerance for evil than for violence. If crooked gamboling, thieving and robing are covered over folks will tolerate it longer than out right violence, even when the violence may be cleansing."
Psychology

"He'd had the foresight to know that a lot of the savages wear store-bought clothes."
Observation

"Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance."
Education

"To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder."
Faith

"If you're going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the ideas will come. You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow."
Art

"It is brutal. Only I never could see the sense in having folks look at your tombstone and say, 'He was a man who didn't believe in violence, He's a good man... and dead."
Morality

"I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant."
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