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Quotes by Author
"God's secrets are always revealed to us, the children of God."
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"In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood."
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"I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way."
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"It does not mean you are not awesome, if no one ever appreciates your beauty. But I can see that, in your juicy eyes, funny smiles and innocent face. And I am telling you now; you are exceptionally beautiful and awesome."
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"People do not win people fights. Lawyers do."
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"Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation."
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"If I am looking for inspiration, then I read the religious scriptures."
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"Mandy loved the smell of a sunny day after a night of rain. The sun hit the orange puddles, the overgrown, soft, green grass on her lawn, and it beamed down through the orange steel mill smog, sending otherworldly, bizarre shadows across the concrete sidewalk."
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"I will not forget the instinctive wisdom of the friend who, every day for those first few weeks, brought me a quart container of scallion-and-ginger congee from Chinatown. Congee I could eat. Congee was all I could eat."
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"Nothing fulfills one's soul better than loving oneself unconditionally."
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"I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature."
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"When discharging industrial gas into the indoor environment in high altitude astronomy, we never wore breathing respirators that fed us oxygenated air at above the legally required 19.5% oxygen levels."
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"Cleanliness is next to godliness."
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"Sometimes, to love people, I must completely avoid them. Sometimes, to be strong, I must completely fall apart. Sometimes, to create, I must completely destroy."
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"One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again."
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"I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book."
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"I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat."
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"Your handshake has the power to reveal your strength of character, make a promise, demonstrate your level of respect, exercise your etiquette, and represent your business acumen. Learning how to do it well will take you far in life and in business."
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"He had been aware of the distance traveled by his heart, similar to the way a hiker became lost in the wilderness. A half mile out and you could still see where you had started, could easily find the way back home. But ten miles and a number of forks in your trail later and there was no going back. At that point, you had no choice but to marshal the resources to build yourself a shelter and put down fresh roots."
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"The audience only pays attention as long as you know where you are going."
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"The transformation of a nation is impossible without God's grace."
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"The greatest excuse you must have is the excuse to do your best to the very best and in a distinctive manner."
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"It's best to have your tools with you. If you don't, you're apt to find something you didn't expect and get discouraged."
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"It is unwise to be part of what reduces you to less than yourself."
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"Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend."
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"There are very few personal problems that can't be solved with a suitable application of high explosives."
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"The devil himself had probably redesigned Hell in the light of information he had gained from observing airport layouts."
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"Eurasia ended up with the most domesticated animal species in part because it's the world's largest land mass and offered the most wild species to begin with."
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"Celibacy sucks, no pun intended."
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"But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me."
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"I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people."
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"People flock in, nevertheless, in search of answers to those questions only librarians are considered to be able to answer, such as "Is this the laundry?" "How do you spell surreptitious?" and, on a regular basis, "Do you have a book I remember reading once? It had a red cover and it turned out they were twins."
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"In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else I've ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination."
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"Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?"
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"They will open up to what I would call corporate broadcastings where the non-commercial material will have air time. There's no possibility of that here right now, none."
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