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Quotes by Writer
"Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds."
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"One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass."
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"Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much."
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"Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the lives of my characters, as well, albeit on a much different level."
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"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity."
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"Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice."
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"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
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"There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect."
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"There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment."
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"It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living."
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"So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend."
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"The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility."
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"I don't know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move beyond imitation and discover what you can write that no one else can - that is, find out who you are and write that in an appropriate narrative and style."
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"It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it."
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"Somehow, the more I get older, and the more I see of people and sadness and illness and everything, the sorrier I get for everyone."
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"Don't wait. The time will never be just right."
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"I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me."
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"Love is a choice you make from moment to moment."
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"To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail."
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"I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David."
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"In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites."
Fact,
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"The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid."
Mind,
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"The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity."
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"I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is."
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"In existential mathematics that experience takes the form of two basic equations: The degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory, the degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of forgetting."
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"A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run - sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet."
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"No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery."
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