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Quotes by Novelist
"One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals."
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"Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people."
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"Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience."
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"For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store."
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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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"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."
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"Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want."
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"All great literature is one of two stories, a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town."
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"Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream."
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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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"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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"Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness."
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"The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity."
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"At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone."
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"I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible."
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"Never, never marry, my friend. Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the woman you've chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you'll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you're old and good for nothing. Otherwise all that's good and lofty in you will be lost."
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"Man will not merely endure; he will prevail."
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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 best parenting advice I ever got was from a labor nurse who told me the following:1. After your baby gets here, the dog will just be a dog.2. The terrible twos last through age three.3. Never ask your child an open-ended question, such as "Do you want to go to bed now?" You won't want to hear the answer, believe me. "Do you want me to carry you upstairs, or do you want to walk upstairs to go to bed?" That way, you get the outcome you want and they feel empowered."
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"Don't you think you're quite young?''I'm twenty-one,' said Brida. 'If I wanted to start learning ballet, I'd be conseidered too old."
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"Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears."
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"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."
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"To be hated cordially, is only a left-handed compliment."
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"I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved. I'm a housewife and a prostitute, both of us living in the same body and doing battle with each other."
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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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"What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote."
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"What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation."
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"Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor."
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"There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy."
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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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"Don't just count your years, make your years count."
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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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