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Quotes by Novelist
"All right then, I'll be mad at you on this score, which incidentally is no great misfortune, as things balance out quite well if there's a little anger for you lurking in one corner of my heart."
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"Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it."
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"Ester asked why people are sad."That's simple," says the old man. "They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams."
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"The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation."
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"Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth."
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"When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as "Catch-22" I'm tempted to reply, "Who has?""
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"Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you."
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"You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition."
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"The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable."
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"Felix believed that the answer to every problem involved penguins; but it wasn't fair to birds, and I was getting tired of teleporting them back home. Somewhere in Antarctica, a whole flock of Magellanic penguins were undergoing psychotherapy."
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"I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child."
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"He was neither rich nor great, young nor handsome, - in no respect what is called fascinating, imposing or brilliant; and yet he was as attractive as a genial fire, and people seemed to gather about him as naturally as about a warm hearth."
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"The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century."
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"An original thought would crack your feeble skull like a thunderbolt, you craven vulture."
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"One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines."
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"Hobbies are for pleasure, but rituals keep you going."
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"No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman."
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"One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul."
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"Luisa rolls her napkin into a compact ball. "I ask three simple questions. How did he get that power? How is he using it? And how can it be taken off the sonofabitch?"
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"Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true."
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"I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself."
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"Tell me Zach. I don't know if it was the wind or the adrenaline, but I shivered. 'And don't lie to me."
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"Human beings are the only ones in nature who are aware that they will die. For that reason and only for that reason, I have a profound respect for the human race, and I believe that its future is going to be much better than its present. Even knowing that their days are numbered and that everything will end when they least expect it, people make of their lives a battle that is worthy of a being with eternal life. What people regard as vanity-leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten- I regard as the highest expression of human dignity."
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"Of course I love you. It is my fault that you have not known it all the while (the flower to little prince)"
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"That will be so amusing! You will have five hundred million little bells,and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water..."
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"I know everything's alright but I want proof and the Buddhas and the Virgin Marys are there reminding me of the solemn pledge of faith in this harsh and stupid earth where we rage our so-called lives in a sea of worry, meat for Chicagos of Graves - right this minute my very father and my very brother lie side by side in mud in the North and I'm supposed to be smarter than they are - being quick I am dead."
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"But in her loneliness in the palace she learned to know him, they learned to know each other, and she discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them."
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