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Quotes by Novelist
"Elsewhere the paper notes that vegetarians and vegans (including athletes) 'meet and exceed requirements' for protein. And, to render the whole we-should-worry-about-getting-enough-protein-and-therefore-eat-meat idea even more useless, other data suggests that excess animal protein intake is linked with osteoporosis, kidney disease, calcium stones in the urinary tract, and some cancers. Despite some persistent confusion, it is clear that vegetarians and vegans tend to have more optimal protein consumption than omnivores."
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"For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first."
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"A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening. If one listens to them silently for a long time, the longing reveals its kernel, its meaning. It is not so much a matter of escaping from one's suffering, though it may seem to be so. It is a longing for home, for a memory of the mother, for new metaphors for life. It leads home."
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"I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else."
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"It's possible, and I stress possible, that such a moment may never come: you may not fall in love, you may not be able to or you may not wish to give your whole life to anyone, and, like me, you may turn forty-five one day and realize that you're no longer young and you have never found a choir of cupids with lyres or a bed of white roses leading to the altar. The only revenge left for you then will be to steal from life the pleasure of firm and passionate flesh - a pleasure that evaporates faster than good intentions and is the nearest thing to heaven you will find in this stinking world where everything decays, beginning with beauty and ending with memory."
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"When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning-human meaning, that is-is defined by them. You have to admit that."
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"Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child."
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"There is nothing in the path of life that we don't already know before we start. Nothing important is learned, it is simply remembered."
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"Religion is boring and alien to me and relates no more than a chimera to what is to me the reality of the spirit."
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"Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person."
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"Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience."
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"Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me."
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"Senor Sempere believed that God lives, to a smaller or greater extent, in books, and that is why he devoted his life to sharing them, to protecting them, and to making sure their pages, like our memories and our desires, are never lost."
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"Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings."
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"Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal."
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"Fear has many eyes and can see things underground."
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"Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs."
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"Cynicism can blind one to subtler virtues."
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"I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of thousands more would remain unexplored, forgotten forever."
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"In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike."
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"The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme."
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"Patience's design flaw became obvious for the first time in my life: the outcome is decided not during the course of play but when the cards are shuffled, before the game even begins. How pointless is that?"
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"Just think! This whole world of ours is only a speck of mildew sprung up on a tiny planet, yet we think we can have something great - thoughts,, actions! They are all but grains of sand."
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"Because it doesn't matter anymore, and because I'm so desperately lonely I can't stand it."
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"Ashryver eyes.The fairest eyes, from legends oldof brightest, ringed with gold."
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"Who are the lunatics? The ones who see horror in the heart of their fellow humans and search for peace at any price? Or the ones who pretend they don't see what's going on around them? The world belongs either to lunatics or hypocrites. There are no other races on this earth. You must choose which one to belong to."
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"Remember!--It is Christianity to do good always--even to those who do evil to us. It is Christianity to love our neighbours as ourself, and to do to all men as we would have them do to us. It is Christianity to be gentle, merciful and forgiving, and to keep those qualities quiet in our own hearts, and never make a boast of them or of our prayers or of our love of God, but always to show that we love Him by humbly trying to do right in everything. If we do this, and remember the life and lessons of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and try to act up to them, we may confidently hope that God will forgive us our sins and mistakes, and enable us to live and die in peace."
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"Inspiration comes when you stick your elbows on the table, your bottom on the chair and you start sweating. Choose a theme, an idea, and squeeze your brain until it hurts. That's called inspiration."
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"Luckily, in my case, I have managed, by writing, to do the one thing that I always wanted to do."
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"It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action."
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"Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys."
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"I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books , music, love for one's neighbor - such is my idea of happiness. And then, on top of all that, you for a mate, and children, perhaps - what more can the heart of a man desire?"
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"The boy could see in his father's gaze a desire to be able, himself, to travel the world-a desire that was still alive, despite his father's having had to bury it, over dozens of years, under the burden of struggling for water to drink, food to eat, and the same place to sleep every night of his life."
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