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Quotes by Author
"Anybody is liable to rheumatism in her legs, Anne. It's only old people who should have rheumatism in their souls, though. Thanks goodness, I never have. When you get rheumatism in your soul you might as well go and pick out your coffin."
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"There has been this - and it's reflected in the broadcasts - this moronic use of statistics. Which has suggested to everyone who is intelligent the use of statistics is moronic."
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"Part of Creator occupies outer part of universe."
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"Time is wealth from which everything comes."
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"It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not."
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"A more truthful perception may be seen from the perspective of the whole - what we really are, beyond names, roles, education, religion and other information added to our true nature."
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"Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs."
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"To every problem there is already a solution whether you know it or not."
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"It's extraordinary how inventive one can be with ethanol right now."
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"Teach them what you love to do in life. It really doesn't matter what it is. It never does. Just show them how important a passion is . . ."
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"We fight exploitation of man by man in words but live it in daily life."
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"I felt ashamed.""But of what? Psyche, they hadn't stripped you naked or anything?""No, no, Maia. Ashamed of looking like a mortal -- of being a mortal.""But how could you help that?""Don't you think the things people are most ashamed of are things they can't help?"
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"The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did have abundant resources. But now we are gradually exhausting our fisheries, our topsoil, our water. On top of that, we're coming to the end of world resources."
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"As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write, I'm gonna write the way I wanna write!"
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"I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged."
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"A youth is susceptible to the influence of idealist notions. As a person ages, they notice a gap between their expectations and reality and they grow more pessimistic about the world and their ability to live up to the lofty notions that inspired a younger self."
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"I'm prouder of him than I've ever been of myself - I'm proud of him for standing up to me."
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"Be judgmental to yourself, but be kind and non-judgmental to others."
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"Just an emotional response of sentiments will only lead to tiredness and weariness."
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"Even if 80 percent of the population of a country are Christian believers, they will have almost no cultural influence if the Christians do not live in cultural centers and work in culture-forging fields such as academia, publishing, media, entertainment, and the arts. The assumption that society will improve simply be more Christian believers being present is no longer valid."
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"What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan."
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"If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does."
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"I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around."
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"If I have never had, or worse yet, I have lost the conviction that life (despite all of the blows it wields and the savagery that it spawns) is nonetheless an incalculable privilege, I will have in that single loss forfeited the whole of my life and effectively wiped out any hope that I can or will do anything other than exist."
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"It may be that we're not seeing the wonder in life because all we're doing is wondering how we're going to survive life."
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"That the more authoritarian organizations survive and prevail goes generally unnoticed because people focus on the objectives of organizations, which are many and varied, rather than on their structures, which lend to be similar."
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"They are shooting The Thief Lord in Venice at the moment."
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