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"I've always believed in survival."
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"Books are the mirrors of the soul."
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"The first of 'Goose's Two Laws of Survival.' It runs thus, 'The weak are meat the strong do eat.' ... Henry grinned in the dark & cleared his throat. "The second law of survival states that there is no second law. Eat or be eaten. That's it."
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"Fear is a kind of bell or gong which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying."
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"What we cannot bear removes us from life, what remains can be borne."
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"In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival."
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"It's not over if you're still here, Chronicler said. "It's not a tragedy if you're still alive."
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"To simply survive appears to be the choice of the plodding hoards that wander all around me. Therefore, I've adamantly committed to never hoard hoards."
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"I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defense when and wherever needed."
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"The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads."
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"From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes."
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"My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past."
Life
"My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play."
Death
"I've always believed in survival."
Survival
"My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father."
Family
"We were married for almost 45 years. We fought all the time, it wasn't a great love or anything, it wasn't a great, all-consuming passion. She was just there. A lot of people were startled because we didn't seem devoted but we were."
Love
"Gossip is more popular than literature."
Gossip
"Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed."
Father
"I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of."
Life
"I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it."
Grief
"We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time."
Life
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