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Quotes by Writer
"When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it."
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"You can't eat your friends and have them too."
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"The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best."
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"Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon, than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness, that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel."
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"What i'm trying to say is this. A certain kind of shittiness, a certain kind of stagnation, a certain kind of darkness, goes on propogating itself by its own power in its own self-contained cycle. And once it passes a certain point, no one can stop it - even if the person himself wants to stop it."
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"Who really want to succeed follow the principles of his mentor with determination and action."
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"The soul might be silent but the servant of the soul has always got a voice and it has got one for a reason."
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"The things that concern us during the day are going to influence what we experience during the night."
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"What kind of life can you have in a house without books?"
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"For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone."
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"An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence."
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"Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it."
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"I don't think I've ever dared to write down what I see in the ruins of me, or tell in any detail the scars and all their secrets."
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"Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie."
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"It's your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to be contagious."
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"I just got my signals crossed. First thing, I have to untangle the connections. Otherwise, I come away empty-handed. Or with someone else's hands. Or even with a missing hand."
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"I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read."
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"The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too."
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"No one can do me any good by loving me I have more love than I need or could do any good with but people do me good by making me love them - which isn't easy."
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"The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence."
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"A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses."
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"It was a good experience working with Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda."
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"Did those nice church ladies come by again?" He nodded. "I asked them if a man died and then the woman remarried, and then the three of them met in heaven, would it be a sin for them to have a threesome, since they were all married in God's eye. And they decided they were late to be somewhere else."
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"This is what'll happen, she said, 'and it's true, perfectly true. When you go out of here, all the particles that make you up will loosen and float apart, just like your daemons did. If you've seen people dying, you know what that looks like. But your daemons en't just nothing now; they're part of everything. All the atoms that were them, they've gone into the air and the wind and the trees and the earth and all the living things. They'll never vanish. They're just part of everything. And that's exactly what'll happen to you, I swear to you, I promise on my honor. You'll drift apart, it's true, but you'll be out in the open, part of everything alive again."
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"The awakening passed from simple recognition of my need for God at the center of my life, to a depth where the will is stirred And that is a deeper place by far. That is the place of response, of unifying one's heart, mind, soul and feet around a decision."
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"The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind."
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"Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it."
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"When my female friends are leftBy horrid spouses and lovers,I commiserate. I send gifts-Powwow songs and poems- and wonderWhy my gorgeous friends cannot findSomeone who knows them as I do.Is the whole world dead and blind?I tell my friends, "I'd marry youTomorrow. I think I'm engagedTo thirty-six women, my harem:Platonic, bookish, and enraged.I love them! But it would scare them-No, of course, they already knowThat I can be just one more boy,A toy warrior who explodesInto silence and warpaths with joy."
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"Love Can Left you Up, Love Can let You Down, Love Can make you cry like a lonely Clown."
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"And everything burned in blue, everything a star."
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"Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion."
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"History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose."
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"They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they'll be called "war" too. And there will still be no conventional war."
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"I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority."
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"If something traumatizes you, please do not think that your life is coming to an end. You will still have opportunities to resume with your life by speaking up and seeking for assistance."
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"People do not see your pain , they just search laughing moment to laugh on you."
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