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Quotes by Writer
"Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification. A contradiction cannot exist. No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the total sum of his knowledge. To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking, to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality."
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"The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are."
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"I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me."
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"Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."
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"If there is a substantial difference between a gay couple and a childless heterosexual couple, I'm unable to see it."
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"The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have."
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"There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs."
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"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."
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"It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary."
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"In a pocket of his knapsack he'd found a last half packet of cocoa and he fixed it for the boy and then poured his own cup with hot water and sat blowing at the rim.You promised not to do that, the boy said.What?You know what, Papa.He poured the hot water back into the pan and took the boy's cup and poured some of the cocoa into his own and then handed it back.I have to watch you all the time, the boy said."
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"It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty."
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"I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works."
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"Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself."
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"My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people."
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"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule."
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"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius."
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"God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers."
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"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success."
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"If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come."
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"Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be."
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"False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis."
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