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Quotes by Novelist
"The tiny space, the toilet, two hundred strangers just a few inches away, it's so exciting, the lack of room to maneuver, it helps if you're double-jointed. Use your imagination. Some creativity and a few simple stretching exercises and you can be knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door. You'll be amazed how time flies."
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"It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think yours is the only path."
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"A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart."
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"Pondering is a little like considering and a little like thinking, but looser. To ponder, one must let the facts roll around the rim of the mind's roulette wheel, coming to settle in whichever slot they feed pulled to."
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"Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural."
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"The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist her hand. The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement. Remember all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful and it's best to take the gesture the shadow of the branch and let the mind create the tree."
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"You will ask me, after this, why, I didn't tell you this before. It is because I know how powerful a story can be. It can change the course of history. It can save a life. But it can also be a sinkhole, a quicksand in which you become stuck, unable to write yourself free."
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"The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger."
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"I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness."
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"Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity."
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"All universal moral principles are idle fancies."
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"Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon."
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"They meant abnormal. Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood."
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"What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist."
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"She's really gone, then. The little girl with the back of her shirt sticking out like a duck tail, the one who needed help reaching the dishes, and who begged to see the frosted cakes in the bakery window. Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches beeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much."
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"Beneath that arch of unmoved and eternal lights: some, so remote from this little earth that the learned tell us it is doubtful whether their rays have been yet discovered it, as a point in space where anything is suffered or done: the shadows of the night were broad and black."
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"I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you."
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"I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence."
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"Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other."
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"I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer."
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"When men decided women could be educated - this is what I think - they educated them on the male plan; they put them into schools with mottoes and school songs and muddy team games, they made them were collars and ties. It was a way to concede the right to learning, yet remain safe; the products of the system would always be inferior to the original model. Women were forced to imitate men, and bound not to succeed at it."
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"I said hello to the poodle."
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"There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion."
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"If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion."
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"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool."
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