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Quotes by Novelist
"The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others."
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"I was happy without having sought happiness."
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"In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer."
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"The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique."
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"For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive."
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"I'm putting a temporary hold on the 'stay away from me' thing,' she said. "just for a minute while I yell at you, and then we're definitely going right back to it."
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"Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience."
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"The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt."
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"If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim."
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"He looked down the slope and, at the base, in the shadow of the wall of the Park, he saw some human figures lying. Those venal and furtive loves filled him with despair. He gnawed the rectitude of his life; he felt that he had been outcast from life's feast."
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"At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on."
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"The policies the US government is following are dangerous for its citizens. It's true that you can bomb or buy out anybody that you want to, but you can't control the rage that's building in the world. You just can't. And that rage will express itself in some way or the other. Condemning violence when a section of your economy is based on selling weapons and making bombs and piling up chemical and biological weapons? When the soul of your culture worships violence? On what grounds are you going to condemn terrorism, unless you change your attitude toward violence?"
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"One forgives the critic - perhaps - but never the good-natured friend."
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"It was those eyes as much as anything that had earned him his reputation as a man to be reckoned with. When he stared at a person, clear and unwavering, men grew uncomfortable. Women positively shivered."
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"I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of."
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"What if it's a shy fish? Is that a 'coy koi?' What? Don't hate me because I'm asking the important questions."
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"...your tranquil yes to the changing over into the formless void of the unlimited."
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"I got out of the elevator and confronted Mr. Wexler. 'Killing is wrong. 'We kill chickens, Mr. Wexler said. 'We kill cows. We kill trees. So big deal, we kill some drug dealers.It was hard to argue with that kind of logic because I like cows and chickens and trees much better than drug dealers."
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"She thinks I'm a hussy,' thought Scarlett. 'And perhaps she's right at that!"
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"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm."
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"She imagined herself both queen and slave, dominatrix and victim. In her imagination she was making love with men of all skin colors--white, black, yellow--with homosexuals and beggars. She was anyone's, and anyone could do anything to her. She had one, two, three orgasms, one after another. She imagined everything she had never imagined before, and she gave herself to all that was most base and most pure."
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"I'm good at a lot of things," he murmured."
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"It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think and, these days, thoughts were not so pleasant."
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"Don't make me Alice-nap you, Alice. Because you know I can carry you."
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"I stood there in the doorway before you saw me and I watched you,' he said.'And I watched the other girls. And they all looked as though their faces came out of one mold. Yours didn't."
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"The three jewels of Tao: compassion, moderation, and humility. Balthasar said compassion leads to courage, moderation leads to generosity, and humility leads to leadership."
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"What a lovely display of personhood. He's like a good book cover that grabs your gaze. Read me. I'm fun but smart. You won't be able to put me down."
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