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Quotes by Writer
"I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men.""Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything."
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"He captured my heart so profoundly, I couldn't even write the words to say."
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"An original is worth more than a copy."
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"You are either born a writer or you are not."
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"A brain is a space that is infinite that give people the capability to accumulate new information that we never know or revive the information that they forget. However, peoples' character can really indicate how much information they want to accumulate that can really distinguish the intelligence for every individual."
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"Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist."
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"There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house."
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"It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential."
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"Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another."
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"There was a small boy of Quebec Who was buried in snow to the neck: When they said 'Are you friz?' He replied 'Yes I is - But we don't call this cold in Quebec!'"
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"Better to have the trust of the people than their respect. With trust, their respect could be earned later; without it, respect could never be deserved, and so to have it would be like poison."
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"Reason obeys itself, and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it."
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"Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does."
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"I think one of things is that all fantasy it seems to me works the way your brain basically works. This is perhaps a startling concept, but I think it's true."
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"Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has been taught to associate himself personally with this creative act."
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"Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war."
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"At the back of our brains, so to speak, there was a forgotten blaze or burst of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life was to dig for this submerged sunrise of wonder."
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"I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both."
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"Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea."
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"She watched the tunnels as they flowed past: bare walls of concrete, a net of pipes and wires, a web of rails that went off into black holes where green and red lights hung as distant drops of color. There was nothing else to dilute it, so that one could admire naked purpose and the ingenuity that had achieved it."
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"Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity."
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"If President Bush is serious about genocide, an immediate priority is to stop the cancer of Darfur from spreading further, which means working with France to shore up Chad and the Central African Republic."
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"It's been 12 years now, and I think he still can read my smiles. The way my lips stretch, making my eyes look smaller than they already are. The way my cheeks turn a little red, forming new wrinkles near my eyes. The way the dimple on my face makes a visit whenever I smile meeting someone I haven't seen in ages. It's been 12 years now, and I haven't smiled at him even once."
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"As often as we made love I remembered what my poet told me, that this man was born of a goddess, the force that moves the stars and the waves of the sea and couples the animals in the fields in spring, the power of passion, the light of the evening star."
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"I am a man that knows of the possibility of failure. I have suffered defeat. I have created miscalculations. I have even abandoned victory, and fallen in shame. I can claim my arrogance. I can claim my ignorance. I can claim my naïveté. However, the creation of those possibilities were simply due to a lack of understanding of who I was. I have conquered my Id. I have conquered my Ego. I have conquered my Spirituality. I am a man that knows of the possibility of failure, but because I have mastered the principles of nothing, possibility, and uncertainty, failure simply tags along with me, unable to grasp my glory."
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"The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs."
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"The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind."
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"But if you caught my informant,' said Achilles, 'why in the world would Chamrajnagar-or Graff, if it was him-launch the shuttle anyway? Was catching me doing something naughty so important they'd risk a shuttle and it's crew just to catch me? I find that quite flattering. Sort of like winning the Nobel Prize for scariest villain."
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"Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on."
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"To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year."
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"None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue."
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"What the power structure is afraid of is that we're going to learn to recognize the truth when we hear it."
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"Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him."
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"A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since."
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"Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness."
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"There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done."
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