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Quotes by Author
"Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about."
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"Nurture a desire to be free from the clock."
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"My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor."
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"Pain can cause us to learn no end of lessons, but without resolution there can be no healing!"
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"A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it."
Cure,
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"An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only. . . . We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we at leisure to savour the real beauties. Till then, it is like wasting great wine on a ravenous natural thirst which merely wants cold wetness."
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"Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt."
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"I walked past her, thinking: Is this what happens to the youth of women? Those whom we have met in the past, if suddenly we desire to see them again, have they become old? Is the young woman whom we desire like a character on the stage, when, unable to secure the actress who created the part, the management is obliged to entrust it to a new star? But then it is no longer the same."
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"A person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have."
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"I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig."
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"Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic."
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"Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain."
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"I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it."
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"Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that."
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"You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."
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"A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained."
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"Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head."
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"What you get by achieving your goals is as important as what you become by achieving your goals."
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"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine."
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"The devil sends disillusionment to such people who have the desire to do something for God."
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"Life itself is simple...it's just not easy."
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"I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself."
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"The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet."
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