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Quotes by Writer
"To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world."
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"It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great."
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"I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is."
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"A person's destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance."
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"Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire."
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"Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them."
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"Action is the real measure of intelligence."
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"Like boarding a train running parallel. That's what disappearing is."
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"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming."
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"Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still."
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"Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?"
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"Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh."
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"Curiosity can bring guts out of hiding at times, maybe even get them going. But curiosity usually evaporates. Gust have to go for the long haul. Curiosity's like a fun friend you can't really trust. It turns you on and then it leaves you to make it on your own - with whatever guts you can muster."
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"Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it."
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"The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it."
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"The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet."
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"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you."
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"Even chance meetings are the result of karma. Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there's no such thing as coincidence."
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"Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I'm talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean."
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"Listen to what is being preached today. Look at everyone around us. You've wondered why they suffer, why they seek happiness and never find it. If any man stopped and asked himself whether he's ever held a truly personal desire, he'd find the answer. He'd see that all his wishes, his efforts, his dreams, his ambitions are motivated by other men. He's not really struggling even for material wealth, but for the second-hander's delusion - prestige. A stamp of approval, not his own. He can find no joy in the struggle and no joy when he has succeeded. He can't say about a single thing: 'This is what I wanted because I wanted it, not because it made my neighbors gape at me'. Then he wonders why he's unhappy."
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"What did I tell you about plastic ties? Only for humans, Julie murmured.If you don't listen to me, I can't teach you anything."
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"If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that."
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"Maybe it's not logical. I don't know. I don't care. I've been asked didnt I think it odd that I should be present to witness the death of everything and I do think it's odd but that doesnt mean it's not so. Someone has to be here."
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"How does one hate a country, or love one? Tibe talks about it; I lack the trick of it. I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but 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? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good thing, but one mustn't make a virtue of it, or a profession... Insofar as I love life, I love the hills of the Domain of Estre, but that sort of love does not have a boundary-line of hate. And beyond that, I am ignorant, I hope."
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"Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form."
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"I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course--the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end."
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"Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence."
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"When you stop growing you start dying."
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"I feel that the change, the mutation in consciousness, will occur spontaneously once certain pressures now in operation are removed. I feel that the principal instrument of monopoly and control that prevents expansion of consciousness is the word lines controlling thought, feeling and apparent sensory impressions of the human host."
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"You are also caught with the fact that man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage."
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"For he was aware of the great secret of life: Women don't look for handsome men. Women look for men who have had beautiful women. Having an ugly mistress is therefore a fatal mistake."
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"Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse."
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"Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy."
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"We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity."
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