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"It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important."
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"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."
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"Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances."
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"For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion."
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"People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights."
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"For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion."
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"When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else."
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"Happy the people whose annals are vacant."
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"What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy."
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"They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed."
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"Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids."
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"This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything."
Work
"Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!"
Work
"The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion."
Change
"In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better."
Writing
"Pearls mean tears."
Symbolism
"Growing up is after all only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what everyone shares."
Humanity
"It's a hard case,' said Paul. 'First, I'm twenty. That means I'm very nervous and ill-at-ease with women. Second, I'm twenty. I have all my life before me, and frankly the prospect often appals me. Thirdly, I'm twenty, and I'm in love with Anna and my heart is breaking."
Love
"In the morning, when she wishes me to wake, she crouches on my chest, and pats my face with her paw. Or, if I am on my side, she crouches looking into my face. Soft, soft touches of her paw. I open my eyes, say I don't want to wake. I close my eyes. Cat gently pats my eyelids. Cat licks my nose. Cat starts purring, two inches from my face. Cat, then, as I lie pretending to be asleep, delicately bites my nose. I laugh and sit up. At which she bounds off my bed and streaks downstairs - to have the back door opened if it is winter, to be fed, if it is summer."
Love
"This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy to enjoy what has been won for them."
Change
"Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot."
Literature
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