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Quotes by Writer
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
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"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
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"The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet."
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"(About Sartre...)His death does not separate us. My death will not bring us together again. That is how things are. It is in itself splendid that we were able to live our lives in harmony for so long."
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"Trust yourself. You've survived a lot, and you'll survive whatever is coming."
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"It takes a while to spoil a world, but it can be done."
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"Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before."
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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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"You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere."
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"No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish."
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"I could have had class. I could have been a contender."
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"Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret."
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"Accept who you are, and revel in it."
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"I was convinced that I would be, that I was already, one in a million."
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"Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. . . If reality differs from person to person, can we speak of reality singular, or shouldn't we really be talking about plural realities? And if there are plural realities, are some more true (more real) than others? What about the world of a schizophrenic? Maybe it's as real as our world. Maybe we cannot say that we are in touch with reality and he is not, but should instead say, His reality is so different from ours that he can't explain his to us, and we can't explain ours to him. The problem, then, is that if subjective worlds are experienced too differently, there occurs a breakdown in communication ... and there is the real illness."
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"Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish."
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"When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics."
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"Age and illness made one a dualist."
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"That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain."
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"I defy anyone to get a decision that quickly these days."
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"It's easy to keep issuing blame to Republicans or the president."
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"Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience."
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"As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky. So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, with the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too."
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"She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when.""
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"In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible."
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"Not every programme dealing with issues of global significance has to be fronted by last week's winner of Have I Got News For You-but I suppose you might be wrong."
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"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
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"Artists think along the edges of the box, because that's where things get done. That's where the audience is, that's where the means of production are available, and that's where you can make an impact."
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"Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price."
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"My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious."
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"Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death."
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"I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology."
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