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Quotes by Novelist
"I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever."
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"When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive."
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"Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists."
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"What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible."
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"If consumers found fulfillment at any meaningful level, she extemporized, corpocracy would be finished."
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"Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write."
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"Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?"
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"The way to beat Luke," he said. "If I'm right, it's the only way you'll stand a chance."I took a deep breath. "Okay. I'm listening."Nico glanced inside my room. His eyebrows furrowed."Is that...is that blue birthday cake?"He sounded hungry, maybe a little wistful. I wondered if the poor kid had ever had a birthday party, or if he'd ever even been invited to one.:Come inside for cake and ice cream," I said. "It sounds like we've got a lot to talk about."
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"No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure."
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"A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader."
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"Sleepiness seemed to be creeping out of the ground and up their legs, and falling softly out of the air upon theirheads and eyes."
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"I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written."
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"What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation."
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"Individuality or Unity? I say there's room for both."
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"He was the only person caught in the collapse, and afterward, most of his work was recovered too, and it is still spoken of, when it is noted, with high regard, though seldom played."
Work,
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"I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacle to the producers, so I prefer to be a cheerleader and let them get on with it."
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"Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us."
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"One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print."
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"When I get this feeling, this compulsion, I always do what it tells me. I can't explain where it comes from or how I get it, and it doesn't happen very often. But I obey it. And this afternoon I had a feeling that I must come over to the haunted house. That's all I know, kid. I'm not holding anything back. Maybe it's because I'm supposed to meet you. You tell me."
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"To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death."
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"We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other."
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"And I don't like books which are full of name dropping."
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"Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable."
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"I've been waiting a long time for a quest, seaweed brain," she said. "Athena is no fan of Poseidon, but if you're going to save the world, I'm the best person to keep you from messing up."
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"Looking at the elementary schoolers in their colorful T-shirts from various day camps, Percy felt a twinge of sadness. He should be at Camp Half-Blood right now, settling into his cabin for the summer, teaching sword-fighting lessons in the arena, playing pranks on the other counselors. These kids had no idea just how crazy a summer camp could be."
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