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Quotes by Writer
"In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly."
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"To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years and to take rank not as a prophet but as an unteachable brat well birched and none the wiser."
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"Now I am a writer who can command fairly good payments from magazines with large circulations, I very often refuse to write for them and still write sometimes for small magazines for nothing."
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"I knew I was being an idiot. But I figured if I kept being an idiot, if I didn't actually accept the truth, then the truth would become false."
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"As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are bad; editors won't even read them."
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"Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances."
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"If I sound as if I'm always predicting ominous things, it's because I'm a pragmatist. I use deductive reasoning to generalize, and I suppose this sometimes ends up sounding like unlucky prophecies. You know why? Because reality's just the accumulation of ominous prophecies come to life. You have to only open a newspaper on any given day and weigh the good news versus the bad, and you'll see what I mean."
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"I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy."
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"I loved him, every inch of his being, but i realised one day; if loving him meant losing me, than loving him was not enough anymore."
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"People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug."
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"My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room."
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"The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live."
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"I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books."
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"Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom."
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"Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence."
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"The mind can go either direction under stress-toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training."
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"If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices."
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"I'd really like to write a book about Timothy McVeigh, but it would only work if he cooperated."
Work,
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"The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual."
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"Spike: Bloody hell, woman, you're cutting off my circulation!Buffy: You don't have any circulation.Spike: Well, it pinches."
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"Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual."
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"It is true that the movie is perhaps my most politically-charged. The story is thrust into motion by the idea of what do you do when your 13 year old daughter comes home pregnant. And not only is she pregnant, but she wants to keep the baby."
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"Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen."
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"I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't."
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"He's suffering from Politicians' Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it."
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"Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so."
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"I predict that many teams will go out of business and the size of the leagues will be greatly reduced."
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