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Quotes by Author
"The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions."
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"Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things."
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"In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love."
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"Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise."
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"I have felt that odd whirr of wings in the head."
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"I once knew a house rather like The Land of Smiles - an old house occupied by a varied collection of young people, mainly students. However none of these people were true models for the characters in the book, though their way of life may have been."
51
"The mind provides a person with the mental fortitude to survive any physical or spiritual crisis. For the present time, I am satisfying myself by building a little shop in the back of my mind, a place where stillness resides and a jangle of thoughts can come and visit. I am building a room of my own, a room that I can retreat to when needed, a place where I am always welcomed regardless of the trappings of this ordinary and finite life. I do not need much as far as earthy rewards, but I certainly will not spurn food, drink, companionship, love, affection, friendship, or other physical, emotional, spiritual, aesthetic, and sensuous pleasures that find their way to my humble doorstep."
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"Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks."
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"I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing."
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"The conclusion you can draw from these characteristics is that you have an uneven development of class activity and an uneven development of class consciousness in the working class."
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"You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city."
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"I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress."
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"More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material."
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"I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot."
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"In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?"
48
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
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"If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it."
Time,
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"There is a perfection in everything that cannot be owned."
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"I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old."
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"The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."
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"I'm a writer first and a woman after."
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"The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh."
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"I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred."
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"If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it."
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"The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity."
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"Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level."
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"Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work."
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"Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them."
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"The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life."
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"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
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