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Quotes by Author
"Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'."
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"The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said."
Art,
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"Nurture a desire to be free from the clock."
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"One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently."
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"Close your eyes and open your mind. You will now see the beauty with your imagination."
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"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are."
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"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."
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"Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It's something that you live every single day of your life."
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"But love...it's only an illusion. A story one makes up in one's mind about another person. And one knows all the time it isn't true. Of course one knows why one's always taking care not to destroy the illusion."
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"I won't stop caring about the world, even if it looks stupid."
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"Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage."
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"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!"
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"On some level, now, we are joining the larger world and realizing that we are connected with people in these very scary ways, sometimes. What happened recently in Spain affects us here and brings questions up. It is too bad that people have to be shaken up in that way."
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"In some stories, it's easy. The moral of "The Three Bears," for instance, is "Never break into someone else's house." The moral of "Snow White" is "Never eat apples." The moral of World War One is "Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand."
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"Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction -- Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn ... No -- Gatsby turned out all right in the end; it was what prayed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and the short-winded elations of men."
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"But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope."
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"What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter."
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"Grow up and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another."
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"People shouldn't be ashamed of what they are. And it will help them, to gain self esteem and confidence."
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"The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine."
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"Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong."
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"Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed."
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