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Quotes by Novelist
"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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"Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it's a lot of fun!"
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"The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
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"The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe."
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"Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges."
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"Huh," said Percy. "Never seen Jason fly before. He looks like a blond superman."
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"That's what being a demigod was all about, not quite belonging in the mortal world or on Mount Olympus but trying to make peace with both sides of their nature."
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"Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too."
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"There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception."
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"Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us."
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"There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man."
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"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen."
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"Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children."
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"I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living."
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"Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is."
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"A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life."
Life,
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"All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened."
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"Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore."
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"Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness."
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"We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet."
Poor,
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"There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots."
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"As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential."
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"Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against a vast and densely packed majority of the blind, who are led by their instincts and unable to think for themselves."
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"When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely."
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"Frank tugged again with no luck. Even Hazel was trying not to laugh.Frank grimaced with concentration. Suddenly, he disappeared. On the deck where he'd been standing, a green iguana crouched next to an empty set of Chinese handcuffs."Well done, Frank Zhang, Leo said dryly, doing his impression of Chiron the centaur. "That is exactly how people beat Chinese handcuffs. They turn into iguanas."
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"As soon as he reflected seriously he was convinced of the existence of God and immortality, and at once he instinctively said to himself: "I want to live for immortality, and I will accept no compromise." In the same way, if he had decided that God and immortality did not exist, he would have at once become an atheist and a socialist. For socialism is not merely the labor question, it is before all things the atheistic question, the question of the form taken by atheism to-day, the question of the tower of Babel built without God, not to mount to heaven from earth but to set up heaven on earth."
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"Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing."
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"A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy."
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