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Quotes by Writer
"I find that I have about six bloggable ideas a day. I also find that writing twice as long a post doesn't increase communication, it usually decreases it. And finally, I found that people get antsy if there are unread posts in their queue."
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"Once again, I think there is little art being done that really owns up to such intense possibilities."
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"They've been practicing racism so long, it's perfect."
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"I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent."
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"Sometimes I feel so- I don't know - lonely. The kind of helpless feeling when everything you're used to has been ripped away. Like there's no more gravity, and I'm left to drift in outer space with no idea where I'm going'Like a little lost Sputnik?'I guess so."
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"I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere."
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"Calmness and confidence are the source of energy brings with itself unlimited opportunities. Let us but ring out the old, ring in the new."
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"Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes."
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"I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science."
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"The landscape is best described as 'pedestrian hostile.' It's pointless to try to take a walk, so I generally just stay in the room and think about shooting myself in the head."
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"I wonder sometimes if manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things."
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"Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful."
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"No one is fighting for my freedom unless they are doing it on my soil."
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"When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh."
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"People will Keep Digging in Your Past to find Reasons to convince themselves of letting you go."
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"When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor."
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"Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness."
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"Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic."
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"For a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of."
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"I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special."
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"Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it."
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"He's as nutty as a vegan T-bone."
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"Why does every road eventually narrow into a point at the horizon? Because that's where the point lies."
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"Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement."
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"Permission marketing turns strangers into friends and friends into loyal customers. It's not just about entertainment - it's about education. Permission marketing is curriculum marketing."
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"For the first time in his life, sex is located away from all danger, away from conflict and drama, away from persecution, away from any accusation, away from worries; he has nothing to take care of, love is taking care of him, love as he's always wanted it and never had it: love-repose; love-oblivion; love-desertion; love-carefreeness; love-meaningless."
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"Fear, born of that stern matron, Responsibility."
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"I did several interesting jobs, working in restaurants, I worked at a lab rat farm, feeding and watering all these rats. Then I got a full-time job as a technical writer for a large scientific research laboratory."
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"So that would be a classic mixed message to young women: you should look a certain way that's going to destroy your reproductive system and your sexual appetite, but at the same time, you should be interested in sex!"
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"How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?"
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"Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen."
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"I didn't know the first thing about the people around me, but that didn't matter: I was in a new world; and I had the feelings that at last I had put my finger on the secret of freedom."
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"When I look back I can't believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer's Choice."
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"The thing is, incremental daily progress (negative or positive) is what actually causes transformation. A figurative drip, drip, drip. Showing up, every single day, gaining in strength, organizing for the long haul, building connection, laying track - this subtle but difficult work is how culture changes."
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