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Quotes by Novelist
"Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges."
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"We must believe in free will, we have no choice."
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"I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about."
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"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
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"For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking."
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"To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible."
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"You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition."
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"Could an Olympian parent turn against his half-blood child? Would it sometimes be easier just to let them die? If there were ever any half-bloods who needed to worry about that, it was Thalia and me. I wondered if maybe I should've sent Poseidon that seashell pattern tie for Father's Day after all."
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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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"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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"A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats."
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"Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest."
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"Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched."
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"I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child."
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"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards."
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"Dinner was made for eating, not for talking."
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"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."
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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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"A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy."
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"I judged about a zillion awards this year so I've been reading a lot of books that just came out."
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"It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph."
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"The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream."
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"Your uncle," Poseidon sighed, "has always had a flair for dramatic exits. I think he would've done well as the god of theater."
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"Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you."
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"She also liked to remember that there could be no such thing as an intentional imperfection. People are always mistaking something that looks good for something that feels good."
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"Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance."
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"For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse."
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"Human beings are the only ones in nature who are aware that they will die. For that reason and only for that reason, I have a profound respect for the human race, and I believe that its future is going to be much better than its present. Even knowing that their days are numbered and that everything will end when they least expect it, people make of their lives a battle that is worthy of a being with eternal life. What people regard as vanity-leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten- I regard as the highest expression of human dignity."
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"To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power."
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