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"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't."
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"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."
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"The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth."
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"Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it."
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"Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes."
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"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
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"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."
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"Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice."
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"Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth."
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"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."
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"I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs."
Thinking
"If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all."
Writing
"But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer."
Hope
"My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations."
Decision-Making
"It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away."
Life
"She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages."
Writing
"It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from."
Family
"Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age."
Age
"For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood."
Family
"I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing."
Writing
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