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Quotes by Novelist
"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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"Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb."
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"For me, writing something down was the only road out."
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"One thing, however, did become clear to him-why so many perfect works of art did not please him at all, why they were almost hateful and boring to him, in spite of a certain undeniable beauty. Workshops, churches, and palaces were full of these fatal works of art; he had even helped with a few himself. They were deeply disappointing because they aroused the desire for the highest and did not fulfill it. They lacked the most essential thing-mystery. That was what dreams and truly great works of art had in common: mystery."
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"We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared."
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"Nine tenths of education is encouragement."
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"Sleepiness seemed to be creeping out of the ground and up their legs, and falling softly out of the air upon theirheads and eyes."
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"If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud."
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"I'm not flailing now, as my muscles are rigid with the tension of holding myself together. The pain over my heart returns, and from it I imagine tiny fissures spreading out into my body. Through my torso, down my arms and legs, over my face, leaving it crisscrossed with cracks. One good jolt and I could shatter into strange, razor-sharp shards."
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"To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind."
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"In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere."
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"Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people."
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"For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store."
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"A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."
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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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"Dinner was made for eating, not for talking."
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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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"Thalia had gotten herself turned into a pine tree when she was twelve. Me ... Well, I was doingmy best not to follow her example. I had nightmares about what Poseidon might turn me intoif I were ever on the verge of death--plankton, maybe. Or a floating patch of kelp."
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"Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day."
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"There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities."
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"Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends."
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"Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town."
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"From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past."
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"I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible."
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"True love begins when nothing is looked for in return."
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"It was shepherds who were the first to recognize a king that the rest of the world refused to acknowledge. So it's not surprising that kings would talk to shepherds."
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"Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius."
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