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Quotes by Author
"My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence. I do not know that this higher knowledge amounts to anything more definite than a novel and grand surprise on a sudden revelation of the insufficiency of all that we called Knowledge before,-a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy."
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"It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade."
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"I grieve nothing. I take everything."
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"Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway."
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"The reality that I had known no longer existed. The places that we have known belong now only to the little world of space on which we map them for our own convenience. None of them was ever more than a thin slice, held between the contiguous impressions that composed our life at that time; remembrance of a particular form is but regret for a particular moment; and houses, roads, avenues are as fugitive, alas, as the years."
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"Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England."
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"To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence."
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"I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't."
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"We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle."
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"People who want alternative information have to try so hard to find it."
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"Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying."
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"The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor."
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"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."
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"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."
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"The most important thing you can do for yourself each day is to create (in and around you) an environment that keeps you constantly inspired because when you're inspired, there is absolutely nothing you cannot do."
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"If you do what everyone else does, you will get what everyone else gets."
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"For we think back through our mothers if we are women."
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"If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."
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"Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back."
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"Each day I wake up with a naive perspective of life and universe, and walk towards understanding a little more about the true nature of human perception with all its vivacious nuances and behavioral expressions."
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"I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams."
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"Enemy-occupied territory---that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us to take part in a great campaign of sabotage."
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"Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil."
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"The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government."
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"As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure."
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"If you fail, you will be sad. But if you quit, you will be mad. Don't give up on your dreams. Get up. You can do it!"
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"The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you're not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you're satisfied and make you happy, you're not getting stronger."
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"People aren't really aware of what's happening in other places."
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"You're Hell's Angels, then? What chapter are you from?''REVELATIONS. CHAPTER SIX."
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"The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing."
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"Fear is the chain that wraps around a free man's leg."
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"Just because your pain is understandable, doesn't mean your behavior is acceptable."
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"No matter what you do always strive to be the best."
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"My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis."
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"You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity."
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