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Quotes by Author
"One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'"
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"Appreciation generates energy, like thankfulness creates increase."
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"Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there."
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"Darkness is subject to light, and can never manifest itself in the presence of light."
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"Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal. Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That's where the real danger lies."
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"There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn't tell you what it was."
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"Giving materialistically is the soft option, but when you give from what you do for others then your reward is immeasurable contentment."
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"There are no simple solutions to imaginary problems."
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"The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon."
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"It will never be Hollywood, the same way people think it should be. I think it will grow and it will be healthy and it will expand into more than one production house."
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"Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise."
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"Marxism is always open, always critical, always self-critical."
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"Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players in what I'm doing, almost as if they are insisting on it."
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"When the pressure comes, preferences give way while convictions hold firm."
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"I've heard it argued that long ago pain begat consciousness...Adversity forced awareness on us, and it works, it bites us when we go too near the fire, when we love too hard. Those felt sensations are the beginning of the invention of the self...God said, Let there be pain. And there was poetry. Eventually."
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"I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11."
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"Images of the Holy easily become holy images -- sacrosanct. My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself. He is the great iconoclast. Could we not almost say that this shattering is one of the marks His presence? The Incarnation is the supreme example, it leads all previous idea of the Messiah in ruins."
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"The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past."
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"No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet."
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"It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy."
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"If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting."
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"Once I had been introduced to depression, I realized if I wanted to help my friend and preserve our friendship, I needed to understand what the illness was all about."
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"Words are only as powerful as the meaning they carry within them."
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"Prosperity comes only through hard work."
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"Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life."
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"Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail."
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"All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning."
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"Falling into ruin was a bit like falling in love: Both descents stripped you bare and left you as you were at your core. And both endings are equally painful."
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"The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and public sector workers are forced to pay union dues as a condition of their employment, yet they have little say in how the unions spend their money."
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"Every once in while, a person will do something obvious and direct that is no more than it appears to be. I think they do it to throw you off."
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