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Quotes by Novelist
"I see in the fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars, advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of the history man, no purpose or place, we have no Great war, no Great depression, our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives, we've been all raised by television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won't and we're slowly learning that fact. and we're very very pissed off."
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"To love one's neighbors to love one's enemies to love everything - to love God in all His manifestations - human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love."
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"Language, when it finally comes, has the vigor of a felon pardoned after twenty-one years on hold. Sudden, raw, stripped to its underwear."
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"Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty."
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"Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms."
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"I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk."
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"When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg."
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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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"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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"Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change."
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"A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not."
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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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"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't."
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"Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way."
Luck,
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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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"Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree."
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"He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it."
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"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm."
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"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies."
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"There stood a young man who had the figure of a Greek athlete and the face of an English one...Just where he began to be beautiful the clothes started."
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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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"A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments."
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"Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment."
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"I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy."
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"Literature shrivels in a universal language, and an uprooted language rots before it dies. And it should be possible to lift the eyes above the cant of the 'language of Shakespeare'... sufficiently to realise the magnitude of the loss to humanity that the world-dominance of any one language now spoken would entail: no language has ever possessed but a small fraction of the varied excellences of human speech, and each language represents a different vision of life ..."
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"They joined hands.So the world ended.And the next one began."
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"We may freak out globally, but we suffer locally."
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