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Quotes by Writer
"Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude."
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"Tell me what you're looking for and i will become that for you. I can sacrifice my inner freedoms for you without looking twice at my old journals and solid promises I made to myself about such things. But you must be prepared to kill me when the smiles are no longer frequent. Do it while I sleep. While I hold your hand. Do it fast, baby. Do it fast."
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"The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes."
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"Strange. Half my years afraid of life. The other half, afraid of death. Always some kind of afraid."
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"My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father - dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes."
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"I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington."
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"The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't."
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"That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds."
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"Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking."
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"A brand-new tape recorder, completely worn out. Bought with funny money that the store is willing to accept. Worthless money, worthless article purchased; it has a sort of logic to it."
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"What is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry?"
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"To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question."
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"I'd been familiar with comics, and I'd collected 'em when I was a kid, but after I got into junior high school, there wasn't much I was interested in."
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"Create space in your life for people who deserve it."
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"The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years."
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"I have trouble writing if I can't picture how things are going to look."
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"A dark hand had let go its lifelong hold upon her heart. But she did not feel joy, as she had in the mountains. She put her head down in her arms and cried, and her cheeks were salt and wet. She cried for the waste of her years in bondage to a useless evil. She wept in pain, because she was free."
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"However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly."
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"Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect."
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"Friendship is the pleasing game of interchanging praise."
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"The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great."
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"What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?"
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"The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols."
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