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Quotes by Writer
"Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree."
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"Where there is life there is wishful thinking."
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"We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may."
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"Most people, in my opinion, steal much of what they are. If they didn't what poor items they would be."
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"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit."
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"Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices."
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"Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all."
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"People's hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what's at the bottom. All you can do is guess from what comes floating to the surface every once in a while."
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"When you're young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the in-between times, the months that can't make up their minds. Perhaps it's a way of admitting that things can't ever bear the same certainty again."
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"When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes."
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"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
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"Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning."
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"Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion."
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"You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them."
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"I prefer to bring these to the service of story rather than to let them replace narrative."
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"Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease."
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"Doctors is all swabs."
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"One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project."
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"And you can tell the writers who do it - Robert Stone, for example, who with each new novel is doing something new. I appreciate that in other writers."
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"Usually You Pick The Winning Numbers When You're Not Willing To Play."
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"Great minds have purposes; others have wishes."
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"A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use."
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"Phones with numerical keypads worked best for dialing phone calls. Incidentally, phone calls tend to be the primary function of a phone. 'Smartphones' completely ignore these basic facts, resulting in some of the least intelligent devices I've seen yet. Oh the irony."
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"Justice based purely on laws is about as accurate as a portrait created out of large low-resolution color pixels.If you stand back far enough it looks good.Come any closer and the glaring approximations overtake all semblance of the original.Justice should be viewable under the microscope, not from a telescope.And for that it needs to be based not on law but on truth."
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"No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment."
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"You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are."
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"A gifted person who is born in the world can unleash distinctive qualities about him or herself if he or she is confident enough to reveal his or her own strengths towards everyone."
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"Be yourself because an original is always worth more than a copy."
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