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Quotes by Novelist
"I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free."
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"All my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life."
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"My mistakes are usually so enjoyable that I tend torepeat them."
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"The instinct of self-preservation and the urge to self-destruction are equally strong in man! The Devil has equal a sway over humanity as God until a time still unknown to us."
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"It's impossible, he snapped. "Why? "Because I'm Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent. I can't be celibate. Everyone knows that."
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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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"The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself."
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"Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new."
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"Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear."
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"Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?"
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"We're also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course."
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"I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area."
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"The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."
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"There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound."
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"We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are."
Time,
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"Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so."
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"A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing."
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"I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous."
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"If somebody on this team actually gets to first base, I'll stand there naked."
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"The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society."
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"Sometimes you are being interviewed by someone and you think, if I knew this person they'd be my best friend. Other times you're being interviewed by a complete jerk."
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"Lightning thief was good but the sea of monsters is better and has more action!"
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"One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one."
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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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