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Quotes by Author
"Nurture a desire to be free from the clock."
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"The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called trade union consciousness dominates the working class. I would call it elementary class consciousness of the working class."
67
"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."
67
"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."
67
"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."
67
"He sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, since to him all days are God's."
67
"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."
67
"People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty."
67
"I have felt that odd whirr of wings in the head."
67
"The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
67
"People who want alternative information have to try so hard to find it."
67
"Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back."
66
"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."
66
"Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying."
66
"I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams."
66
"It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak."
66
"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."
66
"When you give away everything without expecting anything in return, only then will everything belong to you."
66
"Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be."
65
"Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient."
65
"One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently."
65
"Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence."
65
"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']"
65
"Self-discipline is often disguised as short-term pain, which often leads to long-term gains. The mistake many of us make is the need and want for short-term gains (immediate gratification), which often leads to long-term pain."
65
"Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy."
65
"Painters--and storytellers, including poets and playwrights and historians, they are the justices of the Supreme Court of Good and Evil, of which I am now a member, and to which you may belong someday!"
65
"Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'."
65
"The world is a stage where people come to play their own part and leave, your contribution to making the world a much better place matters."
65
"Yes, I was standing on nothing but congealed starlight. Yes, I was walking up through a savage storm, the wind threatening to tear me off and throw me into the freezing waters of Lake Michigan far below. Yes, I was using a legendary and enchanted means of travel to transcend the border between one dimension and the next, and on my way to an epic struggle between ancient and elemental forces.But all i could think to say, between panting breaths, was, "Yeah. Sure. They couldn't possibly have made this an escalator."
65
"Truth is a bubble and hard to hold on to."
64
"Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It's something that you live every single day of your life."
64
"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."
63
"During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come."
63
"Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world that you grew up in. Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different."
63
"It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade."
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