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Quotes by Author
"Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you."
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"The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London."
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"I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times."
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"The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you."
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"There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement."
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"I've inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense of what my parents had sacrificed in moving to the United States, and yet at the same time, building a life here and all that that entailed."
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"As Bob Dole found out, you can't keep a positive image while being your party's mouthpiece in Congress. That's why no legislative leader since James Madison has ever been elected president."
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"Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure."
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"I saw an injured black cat. God knows, who has crossed her path."
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"If you look across the valley, you can see exactly what I mean: about four beautiful houses, and you think something is happening in each of them. It's like a mural."
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"Thought, the dwelling home of the invisible thing that commands the visible things."
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"The advice would be the same for any kind of fiction. Keep writing, and keep sending things out, not to friends and relatives, but to people who have the power to buy. A lot of additional, useful tips could be added, but this is fundamental."
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"So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality and proper use of natural resources that were radically different from ours, as the Europeans were from the American Indians."
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"The USDA is not our ally here. We have to take matters into our own hands, not only by advocating for a better diet for everyone - and that's the hard part - but by improving our own. And that happens to be quite easy. Less meat, less junk, more plants."
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"There is no downside to taking care of yourself."
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"Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands."
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"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor."
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"As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound."
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"Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval."
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"Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence."
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"The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper whether little or great, it belongs to Literature."
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"The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe."
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"Let your dreams be a manifestation of your vision."
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"In a village where everyone has only one leg, the biped will hop about more lamely than anyone else, if he knows what is good for him."
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"Now the second common characteristic of fiction follows from this, and it is that fiction is presented in such a way that the reader has the sense that it is unfolding around him. This doesn't mean he has to identify himself with the character or feel compassion for the character or anything like that. It just means that fiction has to be largely presented rather than reported. Another way to say it is that though fiction is a narrative art, it relies heavily on the element of drama."
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"Life is all about what you make of you."
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"If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing."
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"Every greed is the root of un-gratefulness."
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"Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie."
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"A lot of people you think you know you don't know until you find out you don't know then it may be too late to know."
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