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"If they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away."
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"It is better for a realist to bend his will and ethics to accommodate a true friend than it is for him to stick to his principles that may turn the friend into an adversary."
"You could be Charles Manson, or Hitler, or even a lawyer who advertises on television, and your dog will still think you're the greatest thing ever. This tells you something very important about dogs: They are not very bright."
"Brambleclaw turned to Squirrelflight first. 'Will you fight beside me?Their eyes met for a long moment. 'Always, she meowed."
"Now, Max, I have told you many times that you are my publisher, and permanently, as far as one can fling about the word in this too mutable world....The idea of leaving you has never for one single moment entered my head."
"It is not until an act occurs within the landscape of the past and future that it is a human act. Loyalty, which asserts the continuity of past and future, binding time into a whole, is the root of human strength; there is no good to be done without it."
"You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence."
"But Percy Jackson has always been reliable. You have nothing to fear. Besides, he likes me. I taught him everything he knows.She frowned. "You did?I found her innocence somewhat charming. So many obvious things she did not know. "Of course. Now let's go up."
"My people - before I was changed - they exchanged this as a sign of devotion. It's a Claddagh ring. The hands represent friendship; the crown represents loyalty... and the heart... Well, you know... Wear it with the heart pointing towards you. It means you belong to somebody. Like this."
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"Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it."
"Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion."
"At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough."
"She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind."
"I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons."
"Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war."
"In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color."
"A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people."
"In a way, her strangeness, her naivete, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of idle imagination. Had she paints, or clay, or knew the discipline of the dance, or strings; had she anything to engage her tremendous curiosity and her gift for metaphor, she might have exchanged the restlessness and preoccupation with whim for an activity that provided her with all she yearned for. And like any artist with no art from, she became dangerous."
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