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Quotes by Novelist
"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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"Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown."
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"When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."
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"When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so called good and tolerable days, I feel so bad in my childish soul that I smash my moldering lyre of thanksgiving in the face of the slumbering god of contentment and would rather feel the very devil burn in me than this warmth of a well-heated room. A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse, perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to commit outrages, to pull off the wigs of a few revered idols."
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"They joined hands.So the world ended.And the next one began."
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"Well, maybe it has to do with the fact that I was a complete Hitchcock fanatic from age 9."
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"It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it."
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"The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task."
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"It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down."
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"A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature."
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"When did creating a flawless facade become a more vital goal than learning to love the person who lives inside your skin?"
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"Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself."
Will,
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"Happiness. It was the place where passion, with all its dazzle and drumbeat, met something softer: homecoming and safety and pure sunbeam comfort. It was all those things, intertwined with the heat and the thrill, and it was as bright within her as a swallowed star."
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"Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory."
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"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."
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"Thalia had gotten herself turned into a pine tree when she was twelve. Me ... Well, I was doingmy best not to follow her example. I had nightmares about what Poseidon might turn me intoif I were ever on the verge of death--plankton, maybe. Or a floating patch of kelp."
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"Of all the Beauties, it is that which attracts the most lasting Admiration, gives the greatest Charm to every thing we say or do, and renders us amiable in every Station, and thro' every Stage of Life."
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"Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter."
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"It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their deficiencies than of their available gifts."
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"These three ladies disliked and distrusted one another as heartily as the First Triumvirate of Rome, and their close alliance was probably for the same reason."
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"Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
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"Oh, I love, love, love women! I think women are wonderful! I love women!"
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"But it is said: Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. The choice is yours: to go or wait.''And it is also said,' answered Frodo: 'Go not to the Elves for counsel for they will answer both no and yes.''Is it indeed?' laughed Gildor. 'Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill."
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"In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern."
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"There was a listlessness in his gait, as if he saw no reason for taking one step further, nor felt any desire to do so, but would have been glad, could he be glad of anything, to fling himself down at the root of the nearest tree, and lie there passive for evermore. The leaves might bestrew him, and the soil gradually accumulate and form a little hillock over his frame, no matter whether there were life in it or no. Death was too definite an object to be wished for or avoided."
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