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Quotes by Novelist
"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
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"Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings."
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"She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind."
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"One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived."
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"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."
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"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards."
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"If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard."
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"Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."
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"If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it."
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"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
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"Because I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. You'll see that there is life in the desert, that there are stars in the heavens, and that tribesmen fight because they are part of the human race. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we're living right now."
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"Long before man traveled into space, rabbis debated how one would observe Shabbat there-not because they anticipated space travel but because Buddhists strive to live with questions and Jews would rather die."
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"We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice."
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"Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity."
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"The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot."
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"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them."
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"Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by."
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"I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about."
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"You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition."
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"A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."
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"People are scared to death and they're looking for something beyond themselves."
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"Literature shrivels in a universal language, and an uprooted language rots before it dies. And it should be possible to lift the eyes above the cant of the 'language of Shakespeare'... sufficiently to realise the magnitude of the loss to humanity that the world-dominance of any one language now spoken would entail: no language has ever possessed but a small fraction of the varied excellences of human speech, and each language represents a different vision of life ..."
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"In order to forgive, one must have lived through what I have lived through, and may God spare her that."
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"The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian."
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"But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain."
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"The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity."
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"If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old."
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