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Quotes by Writer
"People do not see your pain , they just search laughing moment to laugh on you."
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"Falling in love with a writer is a dangerous thing, isn't it? The only thing you get out of it sometimes is immortality."
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"Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous."
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"The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop."
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"How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven."
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"Men don't settle down because of the right woman. They settle down because they are finally ready for it. Whatever woman they're dating when they get ready is the one they settle down with, not necessarily the best one or the prettiest, just the one who happened to be on hand when the time got to be right. Unromantic, but still true."
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"Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible."
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"She's the latest freshest fruit of our great American evolution. She's the self-made girl! Well, to begin with, the self-made girl's a new feature. That, however, you know. In the second place she isn't self-made at all. We all help to make her, we take such an interest in her."
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"If proof were the standard of truth, fallacies would constitute the ultimate reality."
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"I was emotionally erect."
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"Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence."
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"Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right."
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"Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work."
Work,
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"An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it."
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"When you live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again."
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"But she knew, though very vaguely, that she was crying, because hope hurts terribly when it breaks through the resignation in which you have lived for days."
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"Think of Shakespeare and Melville and you think of thunder, lightning, wind. They all knew the joy of creating in large or small forms, on unlimited or restricted canvases. These are the children of the gods."
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"But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?"
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"There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them."
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"But some relationships aren't meant to last.They are worthy only till the time the two persons involved have time for each other.They do not know eternity. They live for the present, the 'now'. And when distance plays it part, or life turns out to be busy, they fall apart.And may be that's why they're never termed 'LOVE'. They simply remain what they were - mere RELATIONSHIPS."
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"When it comes time to write the book itself I'll shut the lights out, picture the scene I'm about to write then close my eyes and go at it. Yes, I can touch type."
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"In my dreams," said Ender, "I'm never sure whether I'm really me."
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"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself."
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"You are the call and I am the answer,You are the wish, and I the fulfilment,You are the night, and I the day. What else? It is perfect enough. It is perfectly complete. You and I, What more-? Strange, how we suffer in spite of this!"
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"I don't know how often opportunity knocks, but temptations to make foul decisions bang on my door all day long. And smelly decisions make for smelly problems later on. A few little decisions, good or bad, can make a big difference in a life. Better to run from those skunks than with them."
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"Comedians can turn laughter into tears and back again."
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"If a potato can produce vitamin C, why can't we? Within the animal kingdom only humans and guinea pigs are unable to synthesize vitamin C in their own bodies. Why us and guinea pigs? No point asking. Nobody knows."
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"The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable."
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"A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination."
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"Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends."
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"The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher."
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"He felt if he could not be alone, and if he could not be left alone, he would die."
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"These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves."
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