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Quotes by Author
"What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue it after failure?"
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"An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness."
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"Learn the difference between good and great and then chose greatness."
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"Sons of suicides seldom do well. Characteristically, they find life lacking a certain zing. They tend to feel more rootless than most, even in a notoriously rootless nation. They are squeamishly incurious about the past and numbly certain about the future to this grisly extent: they suspect that they, too, will kill themselves."
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"Our eyes see only that which language can explain, but our hearts see that which is invisible and unexplainable."
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"By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching."
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"The very condition of having Friends is that we should want something else besides Friends. Where the truthful answer to the question "Do you see the same truth?" would be "I see nothing and I don't care about the truth; I only want a Friend," no Friendship can arise - though Affection of course may. There would be nothing for the Friendship to be about; and Friendship must be about something, even if it were only an enthusiasm for dominoes or white mice. Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers."
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"To keep a warm heart in winter is the real victory."
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"Idris: Are all people like this?The Doctor: Like what?Idris: So much bigger on the inside."
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"I personally could never come to terms with my label of 'Criminally Insane'. Just because of my violent outbursts in prison, don't mean to say I'm mad. Obviously I had become a disruptive element within the penal system. Uncontrollable! Unpredictable! But that don't make insanity!"
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"It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while power remained in the hands of a small privileged caste. But in practice such a society could not long remain stable. For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance."
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"If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there's one thing you can't say about me - that I didn't attack it."
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"The more workers you have in your organization, the better you are implanted in the working class, the more likely you are to come up with the concrete problems of the class."
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"Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself."
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"We must picture hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives with the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment."
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"You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying."
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"The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach."
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"Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance."
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"Change. Adapt. Bend so as not to be broken. Let opportunity guide your actions."
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"Don't judge a book by its cover. Judge it by its publisher."
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"On the road to success, there is always room to share appreciation and gratitude for other people's successes. Feeling gratitude for other people raises our own vibration, while adding cement to the bricks we lay. Finding the best qualities in others allows us to build those qualities within ourselves. And when we focus on our personal growth with open hearts and minds, the speed with which we construct dramatically increases, because all the while, we are attracting more like energy and like-minded people into our lives to assist us."
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"Is it really so terrible being around us?"I blushed. "No," I said. "But . . . it's complicated. I've been taught certain things my entire life. Those are hard to shake.""The greatest changes in history have come because people were able to shake off what others told them to do."
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"I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me."
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"You lose a couple of pounds and get a guy good and drunk, you could have a hell of a good time even if you are not smart."
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"Some men escape the grip. Maybe their wives have no social ambitions; maybe they've hit a sentence or two in a 'dangerous book' that pleased them; maybe they started on the treadmill as I did and were knocked off. Anyway, they're the congressmen you can't bribe, the Presidents who aren't politicians, the writers, speakers, scientists, statesmen who aren't just populate grab-bags for a half-dozen women and children."
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"You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long."
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"Luck marches with those who give their very best."
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"Peace does not demand that everyone like or want the same reality."
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"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."
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"She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression."
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"God never ends anything on a negative, God always ends on a positive. Because what is negative about going home?"
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"When people's parallel truth collides with their real truth, they may have a hard time in subduing all the fanciful items and characters of their invented world. ['The day the mirror was talking back']"
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"People say keep your emotions outside, how the hell is that possible!!!!"
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