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Quotes by Novelist
"Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking..."
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"Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party."
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"Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge."
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"Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened."
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"Of course there will be disappointments and the way will not always be as I expected it. But if it seemed easy, then that would be the time to worry that I am on the wrong path."
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"I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break."
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"Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all."
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"Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes."
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"There are parties and then there are huge major blowout parties. And then there are Olympian parties. If you ever get a choice go for the Olympian."
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"Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable."
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"When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so that I usually don't write, or take notes. And I certainly don't begin. I just allow things to percolate for a while."
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"It's hard to tell whether the ship or airplane - they're all the same, I'm convinced - is male or female; it may shift back and forth."
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"If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors."
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"Right before the game, she strolled up to me. "Hey, Seaweed Brain.""Will you stop calling me that?"She knows I hate that name, mostly because I never have a good comeback. She's the daughter of Athena, which doesn't give me a lot of ammunition. I mean, "Owl-head" and "Wise Girl" are kind of lame insults."
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"Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries."
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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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"A faint smile played on his lips. "Obedience does not come naturally to you, does it?""No...sir""I must take some blame for that, I suppose. The sea does not like to be restrained."
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"It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled."
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"All the real things in Russia are done in the villages."
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"The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon."
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"Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away."
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"People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe."
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"It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality."
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"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't."
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"Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is."
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"The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author."
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"New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American."
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