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Quotes by Novelist
"What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity."
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"Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent."
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"If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship."
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"The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke."
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"If you do not apologize to Lady Honoria, Marcus said, his voice so mild as to be terrifying, "I will kill you.There was a collective gasp, and Daisy faked a swoon, sliding elegantly into Iris, who promptly stepped aside and let her hit the floor."Oh, come now, Mr. Grimston said. "Surely it won't come to pistols at dawn."I'm not talking about a duel, Marcus said. "I mean I will kill you right here."
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"Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man's skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people's back yards."
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"I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting."
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"Because hope comes from in you, and wishes are just magic."
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"It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain."
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"The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures."
Life,
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"Life is you master, or death is."
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"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards."
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"In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke."
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"We were in a great, seething moment in the 1970s. There was a new Labour government and everything seemed full of hope... But, as we got older and we saw how much women's behaviour contributed to what was wrong, we stopped being able to see ourselves purely as."
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"Artemis grit her teeth. "I need a favor. I have some hunting to do, alone. I need you to take my companions to Camp Half-Blood." "Sure Sis!" then he raised his hands in a "stop everything" gesture. "I feel a haiku comIng on." The Hunters all groaned. Apparently they'd met Apollo before. He cleared his throat and held up one hand dramatically. "Green grass breaks through snow.Artemis pleads for my help. I am so awesome."
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"Don't bruise the Foo!"
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"He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions."
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"Give me a book, she said. "A book of sermons, anything."What do you want a book for?"I want words. I've got to have more words. I was kept stupid on purpose."
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"Listen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it."
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"Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We're all limited by our perspective."
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"Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco."
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"To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists."
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"Frank tugged again with no luck. Even Hazel was trying not to laugh.Frank grimaced with concentration. Suddenly, he disappeared. On the deck where he'd been standing, a green iguana crouched next to an empty set of Chinese handcuffs."Well done, Frank Zhang, Leo said dryly, doing his impression of Chiron the centaur. "That is exactly how people beat Chinese handcuffs. They turn into iguanas."
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"This is dreadful! Not the suffering and death of the animals, but that man suppresses in himself, unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity-that of sympathy and pity toward living creatures like himself-and by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life!"
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"By thinking of things you could understand them."
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"In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art."
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"The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much."
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"Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane."
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"Maybe you've heard the story of the man who was so driven by this curiosity that he roamed among soldiers in battlefields. He sought a man who had died and returned to life amid the wounded struggling for their lives in pools of blood, a soldier who could tell him about the secrets of the Otherworld. But one of Tamerlane's warriors, taking the seeker for one of the enemy, cleared him in half with a smooth stroke of his scimitar, causing him to conclude that in the Hereafter man is split in two."
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"There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head."
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"Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression."
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