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"Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts."
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"Your water is in the bottles, and my water is in the bucket, but we are brothers? I am collecting garbage, and you are in the bed, but we are sisters? My fingers are broken, and your hands are so soft, but we are family? Your God is like an angel, and my God is like an evil, but we are equal? My stomach is empty, and your stomach is so big, but we are humans?"
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"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."
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Personal Development
"Women who don't like the rules change the rules."
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Personal Development
"People are very busy; they are so busy that when they walk in the crowds they see no one, no one but themselves; they hear no voice, no voice but their own voice!"
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"Probably the people on the street know better than the people at home."
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"In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass."
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"People on corporate conveyor belts, like animals in slaughter-chutes are all part of the same big massacre of joy."
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"When modern sociologists talk of the necessity of accommodating one's self to the trend of the time, they forget that the trend of the time at its best consists entirely of people who will not accommodate themselves to anything. At its worst it consists of many millions of frightened creatures all accommodating themselves to a trend that is not there. And that is becoming more and more the situation...Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion."
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"Poverty is like a crumb that sits at a table, and starves itself to death."
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"The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply."
Creativity
"Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible."
Creativity
"Invest in a feather duster - the possibilities are endless."
Creativity
"The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky."
Belief
"I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group."
Will
"It has its dark splendor, to walk the nightmare terrain forever."
Horror
"I broke with my religion in college."
Religion
"Memnoch the Devil happen to be my favorite of all The Vampire Chronicles."
Devil
"The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us."
Mortality
"As I looked down at him, as I saw his yellow hair pressed against my coat, I had a vision of him from long ago, that tall, stately gentleman in the swirling black cape, with his head thrown back, his rich, flawless voice singing the lilting air of the opera from which we'd only just come, his walking stick tapping the cobblestones in time with the music, his large, sparkling eye catching the young woman who stood by, enrapt, so that a smile spread over his face as the song died on his lips; and for one moment, that one moment when his eye met hers, all evil seemed obliterated in that flush of pleasure, that passion for merely being alive."
Memory
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