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"I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia."
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"Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road."
"Achievements take leaders' name everywhere. Character keeps those names wherever they reach. A leader with no trust soon fades no matter how far he goes."
"In my father's last letter he said that the world is run by those willing to take the responsibility for the running of it. If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent."
"Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry."
"Never allow your limitations to tie you down for failure to whip."
"The Pilgrims had vision and hope because they lived in the dimension of eternity. Their strength of spirit was forged by a personal faith in God, by tough discipline, and by regular habits of devotion."
"The human race has the power right now to destroy itself. Jesus Christ is going to save us from ourselves."
"If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer."
"The big thinking gives us vision, power and direction, but it is the small steps that are the action of the process."
"Millions of candles can be lighted from a single candle and the lifespan of that single candle will never be shortened! Feel free to share your success stories with every loved one out there, it will strengthen them but will never weaken you in any way."
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"The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women."
"I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real."
"I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons."
"I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience."
"I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night."
"A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow."
"I knew Anais Nin, who called me after I had been away for a few years. She was seeking help because at that time no one would give her a decent review. She was made fun of."
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