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Quotes by Writer
"Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love."
10
"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."
10
"I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly."
10
"When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home."
10
"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."
10
"For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance."
10
"If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic."
10
"I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book."
10
"Rich dreams now which he was loathe to wake from. Things no longer known in the world. The cold drove him forth to mend the fire. Memory of her crossing the lawn toward the house in the early morning in a thin rose gown that clung to her breasts. He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the words and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not."
10
"Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect."
10
"Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful."
9
"Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception."
9
"I continue to be disappointed that people don't try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics."
9
"She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when.""
9
"Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder."
9
"Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours."
9
"Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences."
9
"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive."
9
"America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization."
9
"A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall."
9
"I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that's enough. In the afternoon, I run."
9
"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die."
9
"Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!"
9
"Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity."
9
"Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it."
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