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Quotes by Author
"Are women beautiful or aren't we?"
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"Through hard work and responsible approach you achieve your goals."
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"The author says the mark of a true rest your creature is an inability to be still without a kind of resignation."
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"The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable."
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"The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgement free."
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"When I got off him, I spat the blood that was swamping my mouth in to his face, I looked down at him and it really looked like he was dying- shit! The ambulance arrived in about a minute and they got an oxygen mask straight on him and I could see the life draining out of him. You see, this is the problem; we are only human and flesh and blood."
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"It had been her mercy, her refusal to kill a known enemy, that had made me realize the Order was wrong. It was because of her that I was here now, risking my life to protect the creatures I'd once driven toward extinction. Because a dragon had spared the life of a soldier of St. George, everything had changed."
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"Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is."
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"The problem with holiness is that once we look into the face of it we are no longer capable of taking that which is odious and filthy and somehow pretending that it's translucent and clean. In other words, we have to do one of the most revolting things possible; we have to face ourselves."
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"Entrepreneurs don't have weekends or birthdays or holidays. Every day is my weekend, my birthday, my holiday. OR, every day is my work day. Mostly it's a choice."
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"The young man was sort of ... well ... peering at this shovel, and Lisey knew not by his face but by the whole awkward this-way-n-that jut of his lanky body that he didn't have any idea what he was seeing. It could have been an artillery shell, a bonsai tree, a radiation detector, or a china pig with a slot in its back for spare silver; it could have been a whang-dang-doodle, a phylactery testifying to the pompetus of love, or a cloche hat made out of coyote skin. It could have been the penis of the poet Pindar. This guy was too far gone to know."
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"Are the people around you adding value or depleting your reserves? Is your career de-valuing your talents by not utilizing your strengths? Are you investing in yourself to improve your sense of value and self-worth? By thoughtfully reappraising areas of your life you will gain insight as to what needs to change to increase its value."
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"We stand the risk of a standstill, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks."
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"I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering is when I was working on this book. I've never been more alive as when I worked on this book."
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"I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of 'better' on this planet."
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"What Writing Is: Telepathy, of course."
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"I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal. I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don't really have hobbies in the traditional sense... I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters."
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"The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it."
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"Focus on miracles brings about self-gratification."
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"We do need a system, and we do need you and your 'Bertos, and sometimes we need Sam to just come along and kick some ass. - Quinn."
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"Quiet anger frightens me. The drunks, the idiots, the ones that rage easily - them I can handle. I know when to step out of their way. It's the ones that hold the anger in, the men that think about what they do and how they do it, that scare me. They're the ones that cause damage."
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"High productivity and a healthy environment are two unconditionally entwined buddies. Our process allows us to abort any attempts toward crucifying either of the two-because as soon as one of them dies, the other follows suit."
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"I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past."
Past,
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"The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so."
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"All the experience of the greatest city in the world could not withhold me."
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"If you have to do the work, do it well, with all your heart."
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"Just like it is in the life of an individual or an organization, one of the catalysts of progress is discipline and order."
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"To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there."
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"You are surrounded by ignorance, savagery and fanaticism. You live in a society where everyone thinks he/she knows about everything in the whole universe. If you find yourself among those intellectual idiots, then being good and humble may give rise to doubts in your mind about your own ideas. So, you must first learn to distinguish between real and shallow intellect. Then, as a self- preservation tactic, you need to let your pretence of arrogance grow as big as a Dinosaur, so that the fake intellectuals start to realize their true inferiority in front of you."
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"To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction."
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"Sometimes it's hard to knowwhat todo."
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"Set the standard! Stop expecting others to show you love, acceptance, commitment, & respect when you don't even show that to yourself."
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"He must have stood there for a long time, making a list of all the terrible things he had done-almost killinng me was one of those thingss-and another list of all the good, heroic, brave things he had not done, and then decided that he was tired. Tired, not just of living, but of existing. Tired of being Al."
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"The soft rush of taxis by him, and laughter, laughters hoarse as a crow's, incessant and loud, with the rumble of the subways underneath - and over all, the revolutions of light, the growings and recedings of light - light dividing like pearls - forming and reforming in glittering bars and circles and monstrous grotesque figures cut amazingly on the sky."
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"That was the dirty secret associated with her past. Not that she'd been abused but that somehow she felt that she deserved it because she'd let it happen. Even now, it shamed her, and there were times when she felt hideously ugly, as though the scars that had been left behind were visible to everyone."
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"It is hard to accept being different, hard to have people avoid looking at you, and still believe in yourself."
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"How do you judge the brightness of a light when you're the source? A spotlight can never see the shadows it casts."
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