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Quotes by Author
"The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible."
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"We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise."
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"For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced."
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"I have an editor in my head, that's why I can't read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer."
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"No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it."
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"Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality."
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"Truth is a bubble and hard to hold on to."
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"Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret."
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"My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor."
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"I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing."
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"The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator."
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"It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood."
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"If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race."
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"It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak."
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"Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force - people not realizing that they were always there but doing different things than what we see them doing at the moment."
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"It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution."
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"There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater."
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"The change we want is within us and shall always be within us, the change we can have is in the steps we can take to realize the change we want. Take a step if you want a change!"
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"Stay inspired by feeding your mind with positive, healthy, mental food through reading or listening to good inspirational, motivational, and educational material."
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"For we think back through our mothers if we are women."
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"After the first blush of sin comes its indifference."
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"The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
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"To achieve accurate knowledge of others, if such a thing were possible, we could only ever arrive at it through the slow and unsure recognition of our own initial optical inaccuracies. However, such knowledge is not possible: for, while our vision of others is being adjusted, they, who are not made of mere brute matter, are also changing; we think we have managed to see them more clearly, but they shift; and when we believe we have them fully in focus, it is merely our older images of them that we have clarified, but which are themselves already out of date."
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"Each day I wake up with a naive perspective of life and universe, and walk towards understanding a little more about the true nature of human perception with all its vivacious nuances and behavioral expressions."
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"But to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man!"
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"Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships."
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"Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best."
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"People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics."
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"We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle."
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"Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be."
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"I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird questions on book tours in the Midwest. People would stand up and explain to me the situation in their office and ask me whether they should resign or not."
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"I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it."
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"He sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, since to him all days are God's."
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"The most important thing you can do for yourself each day is to create (in and around you) an environment that keeps you constantly inspired because when you're inspired, there is absolutely nothing you cannot do."
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"The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love."
Love,
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