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Quotes by Novelist
"They themselves do not see the world of light as we do, but our shapes cast shadows in their minds, which only the noon sun destroys."
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"It's never the wrong time to call on Toad. Early or late he's always the same fellow. Always good-tempered, always glad to see you, always sorry when you go!"
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"Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form."
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"He just kind of talks them through, and then I get the fun part cause I get to make up the stories."
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"When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels."
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"It was best to appreciate what you had and not yearn for more."
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"The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring."
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"There are worse words than cuss words, there are words that hurt."
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"As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read."
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"When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery."
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"You belong to all of us, and we belong to you."
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"I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century."
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"Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing."
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"A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it."
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"The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character."
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"There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment."
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"A Court of Thorns and Roses' was actually inspired by three of my all-time-favorite fairy/folktales: 'Beauty and the Beast,' 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon' and 'Tam Lin.' I got the kernel of inspiration by wondering: 'What if 'Beauty' was a huntress?'"
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"I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal."
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"Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American."
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"I swear to you that to think too much is a disease, a real, actual disease."
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"Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness."
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"True creativity often starts where language ends."
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"Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children."
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"We don't see a lot of models for male social interaction. There's sports and barn raisings."
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"The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt."
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"There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves."
Life,
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"Once a problem is solved, its simplicity is amazing."
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"I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy."
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"A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning."
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"Perriwickturned to Penelope as he set the tray down on a table. "If I might be so bold, my lady-""Perriwick!" Blake roared. "If I hear the phrase 'if I might be so bold' one more time, as God is mywitness, I'm going to toss you into the channel!""Oh dear," Penelope said. "Perhaps he does have the fever, after all.Perriwick , what do you think?"The butler reached for Blake's forehead, only to have his hand nearly bitten off. "Touch me and die,"Blake snarled."
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