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Quotes by Writer
"What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty."
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"Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, of the possible."
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"Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one another all the time and cause one another to change and have the opportunity to observe the changes over time."
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"Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt."
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"I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it."
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"A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself."
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"Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey."
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"When we awaken, we cannot account for the time spent. We simply don't remember. About the only evidence we have of experiences while we were asleep is when we happen to remember a dream."
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"I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television."
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"The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice."
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"The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same."
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"Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are."
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"If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?"
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"When I was discharged, I attended the University of Paris and met a beautiful Parisian girl, Janine. We soon married and eventually returned to the States."
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"I don't know any homophobic people. That suggests fear.The people I know who hate gay folks are:illiterate, nescient, uneducated, uninstructed, unlearned, unschooled, untaught, backward, benighted, primitive, unenlightened, blockheaded, dense, doltish, hebetudinous, obtuse, stupid, thickheaded, thick-wittedBut not homophobic."
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"Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything?"
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"I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth."
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"Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances."
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"The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it."
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"There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge."
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"On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic."
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"You'll never understand me as long as you're looking at me through society's lenses."
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"Women are all born with a special, independent organ that allows them to lie. This was Dr. Tokai's personal opinion. It depends on the person, he said about the kind of lies they tell, what situation they tell them in, and how the lies are told. But at a certain point in their lives, all women tell lies, and they lie about important things. They lie about unimportant things, too, but they also don't hesitate to lie about the most important things. And when they do, most women's expressions and voices don't change at all, since it's not them lysing, but this independent organ they're equipped with that's acting on its own. That's why - except for a few special cases - they can still have a clear conscience and never lose sleep over anything they say."
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"Plans are invitation to disappointment."
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"Because Larry, by then, was a drummer, who would sort of get bored and tired, and rather stand up and blow kisses to people. So we needed the bass to sort of drive along."
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