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Quotes by Novelist
"Language, when it finally comes, has the vigor of a felon pardoned after twenty-one years on hold. Sudden, raw, stripped to its underwear."
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"Goodness means the highest degree of popularity."
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"The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything."
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"Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear."
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"The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe."
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"People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way."
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"The two of us in that room. No past, no future. All intense deep that-time-only. A feeling that everything must end, the music, ourselves, the moon, everything. That if you get to the heart of things you find sadness for ever and ever, everywhere; but a beautiful silver sadness, like a Christ face."
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"Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all."
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"A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood."
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"If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know."
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"Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable."
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"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
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"One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation."
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"In so-called primitive societies there are two words for power, mana and taboo: the power which creates and the power which destroys; the power which is benign and the power which is malign. Odd that we have retained in our vocabulary the word for dangerous power, taboo, and have lost mana."
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"If possible, try to avoid pushing each other over the edge, as that would cause me extra paperwork."
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"What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation."
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"He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all."
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"You will suffer, son of Hades!' What else is new? Nico thought."
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"However expressive, symbols can never be the things they stand for."
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"Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel."
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"I'll borrow of imagination what reality will not give me."
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"The crew gathered for a hurried meeting on the foredeck " mostly because Percy was keeping an eye on a giant red sea serpent swimming off the port side. 'That thing is really red,' Percy muttered. 'I wonder if it's cherry-flavoured.' 'Why don't you swim over and find out?' Annabeth asked. 'How about no."
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"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies."
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"Nothing loved is ever lost or perished."
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"Perhaps, more importantly, I think that most human beings realise only a fraction of the true potential of their minds, so the spiritual or mystical, the things which remain mysterious or unexplained have always drawn me to include them in any scheme for a novel."
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"Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year."
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"Don't just count your years, make your years count."
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"So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date."
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"A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."
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"An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand."
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"Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully."
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"For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood."
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