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Quotes by Novelist
"It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness."
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"By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself."
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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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"Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction."
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"One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving."
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"Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats."
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"Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel."
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"Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is."
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"To have them putting him on, trying him on, trying him out while he himself puts them on like a sock over a foot onto the stub of himself-his extra sensitive thumb, his tentacle, his delicate, stalked slug's eye which extrudes, expands, winces and shrivels back into himself when touched wrongly, grows big again. Bulging a little at the tip, traveling forward as if along a leaf into them, avid for vision. To achieve vision in this way; this journey into a darkness that is composed of women-a woman-who can see in darkness while he himself strains blindly forward."
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"It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure."
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"Grover wore his fake feet and his pants to pass as human. He wore a green rasta-style cap, because when it rained his curly hair flattened and you could just see the tips of his horns. His bright orange backpack was full of scrap metal and apples to snack on. In his pocket was a set of reed pipes his daddy goat had carved for him, even though he only knew two songs: Mozart's Piano Concerto no. 12 and Hilary Duff's "So Yesterday," both of which sounded pretty bad on reed pipes."
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"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."
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"A good heart is better than all the heads in the world."
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"If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid."
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"For know, dear ones, that every one of us is undoubtedly responsible for all men- and everything on earth, not merely through the general sinfulness of creation, but each one personally for all mankind and every individual man. This knowledge is the crown of life for the monk and for every man. For monks are not a special sort of men, but only what all men ought to be. Only through that knowledge, our heart grows soft with infinite, universal, inexhaustible love. Then every one of you will have the power to win over the whole world by love and to wash away the sins of the world with your tears."
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"A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist."
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"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
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"The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support."
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"From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment."
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"We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice."
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"She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them."
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"Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by."
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"Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man."
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"I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing."
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"Because I know you, Percy Jackson. In many ways, you are impulsive, but when it comes to your friends, you are as constant as a compass needle. You are unswervingly loyal, and you inspire loyalty. You are the glue that will unite the seven."
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"Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind."
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"The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good."
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"He is not apprehended by reason, but by life."
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