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Quotes by Novelist
"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."
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"Never do anything that you don't want to have to explain to 9-1-1 personnel."
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"Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day."
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"It is not by driving away our brother that we can be alone with God."
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"The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer."
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"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours."
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"It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away."
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"To inquire into what God has made is the main function of the imagination. It is aroused by facts, is nourished by facts; seeks for higher and yet higher laws in those facts; but refuses to regard science as the sole interpreter of nature, or the laws of science as the only region of discovery."
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"Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken."
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"Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected."
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"Take too much time, and time will take you."
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"So far gone am I in the dark side of earth, that its other side, the theoretic bright one, seems but uncertain twilight to me."
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"My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness in life, want their life to have a sense of security and predictability, who want to belong to something bigger than them, who want love and affection in their life, who want a good future for the children."
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"Times of terror and the deepest misery may arrive, but if there is to be any happiness in this misery it can only be a spiritual happiness, related to the past in the rescue of the culture of early ages and to the future in a serene and indefatigable championship of the spirit in a time which would otherwise completely swallow up the material."
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"The magic was boiling her blood. The darkness-it would be a relief compared to the hell smoldering in her veins. The Valg prince advanced, and part of her was screaming-screaming at herself to get up, to keep fighting, to rage and roar against this horrible end. But moving her limbs, even breathing, had become a monumental effort.She was so tired."
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"And this was perhaps the first time in my life that death occurred to me as a reality. I thought of the people before me who had looked down at the river and gone to sleep beneath it. I wondered about them. I wondered how they had done it-it, the physical act. I had thought of suicide when I was much younger, as, possibly, we all have, but then it would have been for revenge, it would have been my way of informing the world how awfully it had made me suffer. But the silence of the evening, as I wandered home, had nothing to do with that storm, that far off boy. I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine."
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"For future exploration, when we have the objective of going to the Moon, it is important to have several possibilities to go there, and within this framework of cooperation to have our own access to orbit around the Moon."
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"Hate and love are reciprocal passions."
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"And there was something so artless in this smile that I had to smile back."
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"The line from Pulp Fiction-the one Samuel L. Jackson shouts at John Travolta as they're trying to wash blood off their hands-pops into my head: 'I used the same soap you did and when I dried my hands, the towel didn't look like no fuckin' maxi-pad!' I almost-almost-share this most quotable of cinematic quotes with him, when I remember it contains The Word. You know: 'maxi-pad."
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"Some disappointments honor those who inspire them."
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"If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime."
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"When you can't die, she thought, everything sounds like a clock ticking."
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"You see, there's a theory current you're insane, or you lean strongly in that direction."
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"You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease. And boldness is the root of beauty. Which draws us together."
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"Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them."
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"He was in my nose, my mouth, on my skin, inside my cells, deep in the marrow of my bones. Just then, he was everything to me."
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"To truly hate is an art one learns with time."
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"After having been standing by the gate of the garden for a long time, Siddhartha realised that his desire was foolish, which had made him go up to this place, that he could not help his son, that he was not allowed to cling him. Deeply, he felt the love for the run-away in his heart, like a wound, and he felt at the same time that this wound had not been given to him in order to turn the knife in it, that it had to become a blossom and had to shine."
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"I was a daisy fresh girl and look what you've done to me."
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"I clearly saw the skeleton underneathall this show of personalitywhat is left of a manand all his pride but bones?"
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"They got under each of my shoulders and pulled me up, Padma walking in front of me and holding her arms out for good measure. I walked on my own, but I knew that if they hadn't been there, I might have fallen more than once. Side by side, we marched into the Ocean, all of us crying for."
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"Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?"
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"The story appeared, then faded."
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"It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants."
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