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Quotes by Author
"Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process."
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"I've had a tense couple of days. And I've got to tell you, burning someone's face off sounds like a great way to relax."
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"The goal is not simply to 'work hard, play hard'. The goal is to make our work and our play indistinguishable."
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"Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed."
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"She would thump them both, and she would apologize to neither."
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"That night we push our cots just a little closer together, and look into each other's eyes in the moments before we fall asleep. When he finally drifts off, our fingers are twisted together in the space between the beds.I smile a little, and let myself go."
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"I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, 'Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.' I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it's not that simple."
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"There are only three types of citizenship: hero, villain, nobody."
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"Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear."
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"I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation."
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"If we try to see something positive in everything we do, life won't necessarily become easier but it becomes more valuable."
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"Though he was not as dastardly as Esmé or Count Olaf or the hook-handed man, Jerome was still an ersatz guardian, because a real guardian is supposed to provide a home, with a place to sleep and something to wear, and all Jerome had given them in the end was 'Good luck.' Jerome reached the end of the block and turned left, and the Baudelaires were once again alone in the world."
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"People who think with their epidermis or their genitalia or their clan are the problem to begin with. One does not banish this specter by invoking it. If I would not vote against someone on the grounds of 'race' or 'gender' alone, then by the exact same token I would not cast a vote in his or her favor for the identical reason. Yet see how this obvious question makes fairly intelligent people say the most alarmingly stupid things."
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"Beware of people who tell you it can't be done. They want to remain on the market alone."
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"Miracle centered gospel brings about the culture of indolence and insolence upon the country."
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"I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He's not crazy, it's just the litany of the mid-life crisis."
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"Never have a plan, it'll just get in your way."
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"I let go of all that does not serve me with gentleness and ease."
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"Sometimes I feel as if I'm only a doorman awaiting the arrival of her royal majesty."
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"We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves."
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"Make sure your not followed! Don't go anywhere."
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"Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature."
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"There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round."
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"His cell phone didn't work in Three Pines, and neither did email. He almost expected to see messages fluttering back and forth in the sky above the village, unable to descend."
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"When we make our own misery we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable."
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"By day I am nothing, by night I am I."
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