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Quotes by Author
"I feel closer ties and more intimate bonds with certain characters in books, with certain images I've seen in engravings, than with many supposedly real people with the metaphysical absurdity known as 'flesh and blood'. In fact, 'flesh and blood' describes them very well: they resemble cuts of meat laid out on the butcher's marble slab, dead creatures bleeding as though still alive."
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"Stretch yourself a bit to know the difference between humans and heroes."
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"The devil is ready to do anything for us not to attain our goal."
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"You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes."
Life,
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"Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them."
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"I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral."
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"Regrets won't change anything. Don't Reject yourself. Just Refrain from what you did badly, repent and move on."
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"Beauty is wasted on the self-absorbed."
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"The secret of all the great men and women in history is that they converted their time into tangible products."
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"In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school."
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"It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism."
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"Don't be too scared to calculate risks."
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"He who extend heaven's reign to the whole earth is fulfilling God's intention."
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"Forgiving others simply means that you refuse to be a prisoner of a past that you can't change, and shackled to decisions that you didn't make."
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"Everything you have is bought by the currency of time."
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"Taste the love of Christmas, the radiance of Diwali, the brotherhood of Ramadan, the feast of Sukkot and assimilate anything that appeals to you. The end product of such acceptance is a peaceful human society, filled with joy and cheer."
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"Yes, our old age is not going to be sunny orchard drowse. By shutting down the fire curtain, though, I find I can live in the moment; which is good; why yield a moment to regret or envy or worry? Why indeed?"
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"All overt and covert emotions would shrivel without the beam of contrast and comparison to supply context and implication. We need the value of counterpoise to recognize and distinguish between similar and dissimilar concepts. How do we identify the importance of hope if we never felt despair? How do we appreciate the value of society and companionship until we experience solitude and loneliness? What would any relationship be unless draped with the boughs of thoughts and feelings, without the ongoing interaction between conscientious action and unreserved devotion, without endless empathy fused with boundless love? In the ring of time, without the verve supplied by both the real and the imaginary, life would be bland, insipid, and lackluster."
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"That was the - It was an exciting time because it was as though I was sort of tied up in a paper bag or in a gunny sack with a rope around the neck of it, and all of a sudden with the acceptance of that first book everything sort of spilled out!"
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"Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage."
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"The best time to talk to ghosts is just before the sun comes up. That's when they can hear us true."
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"No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill."
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"The man who has a goal is not stopped when facing obstacles rather he overcomes them, thus, improving himself."
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"Sandry: "There has to be something we can do." Lark: "We're mages. We do what we can, but some problems are too big to fix." Sandry: "Then I wish I weren't a mage. What good is magic, if you can't use it to help people."
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"Victory was close. Just one final push. "Send in the rest," I ordered. "All wings attack. Take that base down now."
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"Show the youth the consequences of their actions and why they should choose wisely."
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"A change of feeling is a change of destiny."
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"When you can inspire a muse, you've got it going on."
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"Like it or not, your life-what works well and what doesn't-is largely the result of the first impressions you have created along the way."
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"When you know that you know to the extent of committing your life to a just cause, then nothing will be able to stop you."
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"We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection."
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"So many people spend years (and money) studying to be doctors, lawyers, actors, dancers, business executives and scientists - when you're an author, you can be any of these things, and you don't need a degree or certificate; all you need is an imagination, a dream and an open mind."
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"Don't turn your back on your own happiness just to hug your pride."
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"Friends are nice. You can tell' 'em stuff, but you can swear like a gangster at an enemy. And that's all right, too."
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"Charisma and charm are endearing qualities which go hand in hand to make others feel "lighter, happier, and a little in love when they are around you."
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"Communication is an art form that is crafted throughout our lives."
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"And I can't think of a reason I'd ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn't want to publish something that I didn't like enough to put my name on it."
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"However, create a limit for your communications and interactions with the opposite sex and respect that limit, else you tear away your delicate moral fabrics."
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"Confidence thrills men for it means you won't be fidgety or excessively jealous when the man is in the midst of people especially those of opposite sex."
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"Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner."
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"Employment deprives you of innovations."
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"Be cheerful and hopeful."
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"Yes, a deep lesson from the postage stamp. It attaches itself to a moveable material, the envelope and gets going. A good relationship keeps you going forward; a bad one keeps you static. Attach yourself to someone who is also going forward and you will also get there."
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