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Quotes by Novelist
"They themselves do not see the world of light as we do, but our shapes cast shadows in their minds, which only the noon sun destroys."
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"Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy."
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"For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity."
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"Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather than contemporary subjects."
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"Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity."
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"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn."
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"My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have."
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"Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you."
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"For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking."
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"To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible."
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"Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one."
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"What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach."
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"There are worse words than cuss words, there are words that hurt."
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"One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable."
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"We seek him here, we seek him there, Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven? - Is he in hell? That damned, elusive Pimpernel?"
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"Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone."
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"A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it."
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"Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?"
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"The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened."
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"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies."
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"If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves."
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"Not only the style, but the way in which you don't exactly know what on earth has happened or is happening till about page two hundred - then it all becomes apparent in a blinding flash."
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"Could an Olympian parent turn against his half-blood child? Would it sometimes be easier just to let them die? If there were ever any half-bloods who needed to worry about that, it was Thalia and me. I wondered if maybe I should've sent Poseidon that seashell pattern tie for Father's Day after all."
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"I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal."
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"Anyone who lives in her own world is crazy. Like schizophrenics, psychopaths, maniacs. I mean people who are different from others.'Like you?'On the other hand,' Zedka continued, pretending not to have heard the remark, 'you have Einstein, saying that there was no time or space, just a combination of the two. Or Columbus, insisting that on the other side of the world lay not an abyss but a continent. Or Edmund Hillary, convinced that a man could reach the top of Everest. Or the Beatles, who created an entirely different sort of music and dressed like people from another time. Those people--and thousands of others--all lived in their own world."
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"What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?"
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"When I get back from this book tour, I'm planning to learn the internet. Maybe I can hook up in cyberspace."
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"I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward."
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"Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American."
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"So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date."
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"I think children love reading, and they will make time for it if we put the right books into their hands. And I hope I get the chance to keep being one of the people that writes them."
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"The process of creating is related to the process of dreaming although when you are writing you're doing it and when you're dreaming, it's doing you."
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