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Quotes by Novelist
"People are scared to death and they're looking for something beyond themselves."
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"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
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"Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope."
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"The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be."
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"He always thought of the sea as 'la mar' which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her. Sometimes those who love her say bad things of her but they are always said as though she were a woman. Some of the younger fishermen, those who used buoys as floats for their lines and had motorboats, bought when the shark livers had brought much money, spoke of her as 'el mar' which is masculine.They spoke of her as a contestant or a place or even an enemy. But the old man always thought of her as feminine and as something that gave or withheld great favours, and if she did wild or wicked things it was because she could not help them. The moon affects her as it does a woman, he thought."
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"Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision."
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"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated."
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"An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's."
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"But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands."
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"I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got."
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"Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed for myself,' said Denethor. 'Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse lay in the dregs?"
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"It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England."
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"There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them."
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"Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable."
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"That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it."
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"All the real things in Russia are done in the villages."
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"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too."
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"If possible, try to avoid pushing each other over the edge, as that would cause me extra paperwork."
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"Nine tenths of education is encouragement."
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"He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all."
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"In love there are two things - bodies and words."
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"Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60."
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"In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere."
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"Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over."
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"Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings."
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"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you."
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"What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist."
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