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Quotes by Author
"An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it."
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"The great growling engine of change - technology."
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"Painters--and storytellers, including poets and playwrights and historians, they are the justices of the Supreme Court of Good and Evil, of which I am now a member, and to which you may belong someday!"
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"Already we know almost literally nothing about the Revolution and the years before the Revolution. Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. History has stopped. Nothing exists except in an endless present in which the Party is always right."
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"The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs."
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"The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris."
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"If you truly have compassion in your heart, show it by keeping your doubts to yourself and sharing your hope with those who love change!"
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"Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch."
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"One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three hardly possible."
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"Friendship is held to be the severest test of character."
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"They are shooting The Thief Lord in Venice at the moment."
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"The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking."
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"The study of the past helps us to appreciate that the ideas and values of our own age are just as provisional and transient as those of bygone ages. The intelligent and reflective engagement with the thought of a bygone era ultimately subverts any notion of "chronological snobbery". Reading texts from the past makes it clear that what we now term "the past" was once "the present", which proudly yet falsely regarded itself as having found the right intellectual answers and moral values that had eluded its predecessors."
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"I hated high school. I don't trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there's something wrong with you."
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"You see life is predictable. What you do with your time now will dictate how your life will become tomorrow."
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"I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I was the lion who drove the jackals from you while you slept. I was the lion who gave the horses the new strength of fear for the last mill so that you should reach King Lune in time. And I was the lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you."
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"The humans live in time but our Enemy destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time which they call the Present. For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity. Of the present moment, and of it only, humans have an experience analogous to the experience which our Enemy has of reality of whole; in it alone freedom and actuality are offered to them."
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"Speak with your heart when you speak love."
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"Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane."
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"It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it."
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"Cemeteries are full of unfulfilled dreams... countless echoes of 'could have' and 'should have'. Don't choose to walk the well-worn path to regret."
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"I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales."
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"For years, I declined to fill in the form for my Senate press credential that asked me to state my 'race,' unless I was permitted to put 'human.' The form had to be completed under penalty of perjury, so I could not in conscience put 'white,' which is not even a color let alone a 'race,' and I sternly declined to put 'Caucasian,' which is an exploded term from a discredited ethnology. Surely the essential and unarguable core of King's campaign was the insistence that pigmentation was a false measure: a false measure of mankind (yes, mankind) and an inheritance from a time of great ignorance and stupidity and cruelty, when one drop of blood could make you 'black."
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"Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty."
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"How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?Winston thought. "By making him suffer, he said."Exactly. By making him suffer. Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own?..."
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"There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before."
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"Live with boldness! Get drunk with all of the beauty of life."
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"Richness does not come from wealth or splendor, but from an appreciation of those things that you cannot buy."
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"Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny."
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"Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible."
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"A succubus on the set. Strike that, the health-conscious kid sister made it two succubuses. Succubusees? Succubi? Stupid Latin correspondence course."
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"My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!"
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"Don't just remain that accidental product."
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"Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside - remembering all the times you've felt that way."
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