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Quotes by Writer
"I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix."
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"A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover."
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"Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love and be irritated with."
Love,
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"Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature."
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"I've become like one of those people I hate, the sort who go to the museum and, instead of looking at the magnificent Brueghel, take a picture of it, reducing it from art to proof. It's not 'Look what Brueghel did, painted this masterpiece' but 'Look what I did, went to Rotterdam and stood in front of a Brueghel painting!"
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"To write well you must be willing to go naked into the world."
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"There are other issues I have felt more emotionally connected to, like China, where I lived and worked for some time. I was living there when Tiananmen Square erupted."
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"That's the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the first moment you looked into those lovely blue eyes: impeachment insurance."
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"We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same."
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"I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program."
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"No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you."
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"Many people will never learn the lessons meant for them in this lifetime, nor become the person they were meant to be, simply because they are too busy being someone else."
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"Stop giving love to those who don't return it."
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"The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection."
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"Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ."
Fact,
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"Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times."
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"ALS is like a lit candle: it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax.. you cannot support yourself standing.. you cannot sit up straight. By the end, if you are still alive.. your soul, perfectly awake, is imprisoned inside a limp husk.. like something from a science fiction movie, the man frozen inside his own flesh."
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"We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way boys are. If we have sons, we don't mind knowing about their girlfriends. But our daughters' boyfriends? God forbid. (But we of course expect them to bring home the perfect man for marriage when the time is right.)"
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"There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it."
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"The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or helping those who are... the more we are enabling those who are trying to kill us."
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"It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily in this world."
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"The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster."
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"Now imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn't have the weight of gender expectations."
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"None of us lives in isolation. We're in it together. And some conflict along the way is inevitable. But our highest priority, when all is said and done, has to be commitment to each other '- sticking together."
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"Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience."
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"Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat."
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"If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance."
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"Love hurts, Love will make you cry, Oh your heart still aching, From living a lie."
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"The two things that matter the most to me: emotional resonance and rocket launchers. Party of Five, a brilliant show, and often made me cry uncontrollably, suffered ultimately from a lack of rocket launchers."
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"You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself."
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"Rage is really only for the good days. The truth is there's little of that left. the truth is that the forms I see have been slowly emptied out. They no longer have any content. They are shapes only. A train, a wall, a world. Or a man. A thing dangling in senseless articulation in a howling void. No meaning to its life. Its words. Why would I seek the company of such a thing? Why?"
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