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Quotes by Author
"The tired sunsets and the tired people - it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all."
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"I ain't got no people. I seen the guys that go around on the ranches alone. That ain't no good. They don't have no fun. After a long time they get mean. They get wantin' to fight all the time. . . 'Course Lennie's a God damn nuisance most of the time, but you get used to goin' around with a guy an' you can't get rid of him."
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"Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other animals. It's our need to believe and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. ... Out of all the virtues, all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated."
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"He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less."
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"I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process."
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"The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being."
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"When you begin to expect miracles, Jesus feels insulted."
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"I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you."
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"The nastiest kind of writer is a ghostwriter, who bears people's children in their body for money."
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"My people, we stay indoors. We have keyboards. We have darkness."
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"One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die."
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"A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow."
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"The very condition of having Friends is that we should want something else besides Friends. Where the truthful answer to the question "Do you see the same truth?" would be "I see nothing and I don't care about the truth; I only want a Friend," no Friendship can arise - though Affection of course may. There would be nothing for the Friendship to be about; and Friendship must be about something, even if it were only an enthusiasm for dominoes or white mice. Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers."
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"The quality of beauty lies on how beholder values an object."
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"Furthermore, there is absolutely no contradiction between the separate organizations of revolutionary vanguard militants and their participation in the mass organizations of the working class."
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"Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything."
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"The reason I became 297 pounds is because that was comfortable. What was very uncomfortable was running. What was very uncomfortable was being on a diet. What was very uncomfortable was trying to face things that I didn't want to face."
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"I believe we owe it to each other to tell stories. It's as close to a credo as I have or will, I suspect, ever get."
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"Those who do not attempt to appear more than they are but are simply themselves, stand out as remarkable and are the only ones who truly make a difference in this world."
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"The truth of who you are and what you believe is projected in your behavior. Everything else, either positive or negative, is a mix of stories, lies, delusions, and manipulations."
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"Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes, or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison."
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"A leader should have the same attitude of God's love toward people."
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"Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside - remembering all the times you've felt that way."
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"Truth is the greatest marketing campaign."
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"The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner."
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"A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It's in your mind. We're all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war."
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"We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full."
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"Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer."
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"Whatever you want too much you can't have, so when you really want something, try to want it a little less."
Want,
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"The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own."
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"Sometimes when you are falling down, you grow wings to fly."
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"Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical."
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"God rules through light."
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"Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do? Get it all down. Let it pour out of you and onto the page. Write an incredibly shitty, self-indulgent, whiny, mewling first draft. Then take out as many of the excesses as you can."
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"Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse."
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