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Quotes by Novelist
"There was something called Christianity."
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"Young things like you don't need any ornaments but those you wear to-night: youth, health, intelligence, and modesty."
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"Sometimes we don't know we're dreaming, we can't even fathom that we're asleep."
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"That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or death. Both heroes and madmen are indifferent to danger and will forge ahead regardless of what other people say."
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"My only thought was to keep him away from Annabeth."
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"There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them."
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"You, Jane, I must have you for my own--entirely my own."
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"Autumn is leaving its mellowness behind for its spiky, rotted stage. Don't remember summer even saying goodbye."
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"We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared."
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"Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away."
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"You do know how to play pinochle?" Mr. D eyed me suspiciously."I'm afraid not," I said."I'm afraid not, sir," he said."Well," he told me, "it is, along with gladiator fighting and Pac-Man, one of the greatest games ever invented by humans. I would expect all civilized young men to know the rules."
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"What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us."
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"Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole."
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"The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap."
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"Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery."
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"The facts are always less than what really happened."
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"I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing."
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"If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you."
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"The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers."
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"Any capitalist . . . who had made sixty thousand pounds out of sixpence, always professed to wonder why the sixty thousand nearest Hands didn't each make sixty thousand pounds out of sixpence, and more or less reproached them every one for not accomplishing the little feat. What I did you can do. Why don't you go and do it?"
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"The hearts of women are like those little pieces of furniture with secret hiding - places, full of drawers fitted into each other; you go to a lot of trouble, break your nails, and in the bottom find some withered flower, a few grains of dust - or emptiness!"
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"Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity."
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"Spilling a Secret What its size, will have varying consequences. It's not possible to predict what will happen if you open the gunnysack, let the cat escape. A liberated feline might purr on your lap, or it might scratch your eyes out. You can't tell until you loosen the knot. Do you chance losing a friendship, if that friend's well-being will only be preserved by betraying sworn-to silence trust? Once the seam is ripped, can it be mended again? And if that proves impossible, will you be okay when it all falls to pieces?"
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"Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled."
Time,
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"Nico studied his face " his sea-green eyes, his grin, his ruffled black hair. Somehow Percy Jackson seemed like a regular guy now, not a mythical figure. Not someone to idolize or crush on."
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"When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise."
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"The square root of I is I."
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