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Quotes by American Authors
"I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within."
"Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure."
"You know, I grew up with brothers so I'm used to being the only girl."
"I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it."
"Energy and persistence conquer all things."
"Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape."
"Once my doctor began treating my kidney disease, my greatest challenge was the constant exhaustion. Fortunately, my doctor explained that anemia was causing my exhaustion and that people with serious illnesses, like kidney disease, may be at increased risk for anemia."
"Well I have a microphone and you don't so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!"
"I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood."
"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."
"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."
"The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations."
"Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful."
"I'd say there was a fair amount of skepticism at the time about whether the Internet held any promise. And of course I felt that it did."
"I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it."
"I once took a city with five men and a lame goat. If I can do that, you can convince the necromancers to pledge themselves to you. Do this or die."
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."
"True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it."
"The surest test of discipline is its absence."
"The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail."
"The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity."
"When a guy takes off his coat, he's not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!"
"It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties."
"Things are more like they are now than they ever were before."
"Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free."
"Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go."
"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher."
"I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early."
"The stranded Daoine Sidhe knights of the Dark Court gathered at the ring of ancient standing stones under the pale light of the harvest moon. Whenever the Daoine Sidhe gathered, they raised the natural energies of the world around them."
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