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Quotes by Author
"No matter what you do always strive to be the best."
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"Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money."
40
"Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient."
40
"The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!"
40
"My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs."
40
"People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty."
40
"No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people."
40
"The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe."
40
"More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things. Which is different than even 20 years ago."
40
"We are sometimes astounded by the behavior of emotional outlaws, as they act in line with their own standards, but proceed like bulls-in-a-china-shop, create one heck of a mess in their living environment and bring about shocking disturbing dissensions, ever since their inner construction clashes with our emotional architecture. ['Disruption']"
40
"The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing."
40
"Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death."
39
"It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis."
39
"Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act."
39
"Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger."
39
"There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange."
39
"So why don't we take the step of setting goals for ourselves? One reason that stands out is that we aren't willing to accept full responsibility for our lives. If we don't set goals, then we don't have to reach them. Another excuse is that goal setting has never been part of our lives or culture. As a result, we may end up mixing with people who have no clear idea where they are headed, becoming a person who "follows the followers."
39
"The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. "
39
"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us."
39
"Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying."
38
"In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this period - and you can see in that occupation are many lessons for the current occupation of Iraq. So we have these connections that go way back that people aren't aware of."
38
"Your initiatives should be purposeful. Never climb a tree with the purpose of plucking a fruit, only to come down with a leaf."
38
"When you are reading, someone has done a lot of work on your behalf, someone has had ideas and has then written and corrected and improved them so that they can be shared."
38
"Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne."
38
"Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil."
38
"Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act."
38
"To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence."
38
"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."
37
"I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original."
37
"It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade."
37
"Every writer has to find their own way into writing."
37
"Dream until you can no longer tell the difference between your dreams and reality."
37
"My point is: maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through your fingers. So much time you can waste it.But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know."
37
"Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England."
37
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