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Quotes by Novelist
"And this is the only immortality you and i may share, my Lolita."
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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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"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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"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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"Bad divorce?" Hardy asked, his gaze falling to my hands. I realized I was clutching my purse in a death grip."No, the divorce was great, I said. "It was the marriage that sucked."
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"Have you taken leave of your senses."
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"Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times."
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"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 is true that words drop away, and that the important things are often left unsaid. The important things are learned in faces, in gestures, not in our locked tongues. The true things are too big or too small, or in any case is always the wrong size to fit in the template called language."
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"Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home."
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"I'm calm," Rachel insisted. "Every time I'm around you, some monsters attack us. What's to be nervous about?""Look," I said. "I'm sorry about the band room. I hope they didn't kick you our or anything.""Nah. They asked me a lot of questions about you. I played dumb.""Was it hard?" Annabeth asked."
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"The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment."
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"Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness...except possibly when it comes to you."
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"Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little thing went wrong."
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"It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer."
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"Suffering so someone else didn't have to suffer. Sacrificing your body for someone else's well being."
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"The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots."
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"But some secrets are too delicious not to share."
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"My name is Zia Rashid."
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"At one time,' Golenishchev continued, either not observing or not willing to observe that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, 'at one time a freethinker was a man who had been brought up in the conception of religion, law, and morality, who reached freethought only after conflict and difficulty. But now a new type of born freethinkers has appeared, who grow up without so much as hearing that there used to be laws of morality, or religion, that authorities existed. They grow up in ideas of negation in everything -- in other words, utter savages."
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"Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear."
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"We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends."
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"Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge."
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"The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe."
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"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."
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