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Quotes by Novelist
"He felt what a murderer must feel, when he sees the body he has robbed of life. That body, robbed by him of life, was their love, the first stage of their love. There was something awful and revolting in the memory of what had been bought at this fearful price of shame. Shame at their spiritual nakedness crushed her and infected him."
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"Now, leave." All three boys slumped forward. Percy fell face-first into his pizza. "Percy!" Annabeth grabbed him."
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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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"It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept."
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"I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar."
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"For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking."
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"Holding a grudge is a fatal flaw."
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"Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone."
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"Several tons of dynamite are set off in this picture - none of it under the right people."
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"Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute."
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"Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!"
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"Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership."
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"He hates me more," says Peeta. "I don't think people in general are his sort of thing."
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"I've found that lifting the lid with your foot is the most thorough and least gross path to two minutes of peace of mind."
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"A blond in a red dress can do without introductions - but not without a bodyguard."
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"He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse."
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"I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else."
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"But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power."
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"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship."
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"That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we don't notice the threshold has been crossed."
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"Admiration and familiarity are strangers."
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"When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones."
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"And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and willful as a bird's heart?"
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"The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life."
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