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Quotes by Writer
"If each and one of us understands the essence of human values, we will be able to sustain our civilization by living in tranquility and embrace the opportunities that each of us can contribute to our society."
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"The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it."
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"Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there."
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"We then took a shortened version of what we'd been doing in the pubs, with the best gags and things like that, out to cabaret clubs and things in the north of England for six weeks. And we became a big success."
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"No one I know of has ever had this experience-where you had to sit and wait and wait for a DNA test to come back just so you can write the last page of the book."
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"Rome sees some bloke from the London School of Economics on the telly while he's flicking through the channels. This chap makes the point that governments don't actually do anything for us. The only thing that makes them boss is that they control all the currency. Historically, anyone proposing an alternative to cash is brutally suppressed, but then historically they haven't got the Internet, which makes such things much easier to set up; much harder to crack down on."
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"Appreciate what you have while you still have it because one day you won't."
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"Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose."
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"I'm honestly as happy writing Superman Adventures as I am writing Wanted."
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"This is an addictive pastime. You take no real risk, touch the world, and it responds. Repeat."
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"Only secure people can serve. Insecure people are always worrying about how they appear to others. They fear exposure of their weaknesses and hide beneath layers of protective pride and pretensions. The more insecure you are, the more you will want people to serve you, and the more you will need their approval."
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"Have you ever noticed the more you try not to think, the more elaborate your thinking episodes get?"
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"I still can't believe it . . . him comin' here everyday, nobody realizin'. Still, that's life: lotta stuff happens under the waterline."
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"The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size."
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"Every violent storm will eventually give way to sunshine, every dark night will finally fade into dawn."
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"I used to think--and given the way we ended up, maybe I still do--that all relationships need the kind of violent shove that a crush brings, just to get you started and to push you over the humps. And then, when the energy from that shove has gone and you come to something approaching a halt, you have to look around and see what you've got. It could be something completely different, it could be something roughly the same, but gentler and calmer, or it could be nothing at all."
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"And this," cried Darcy, as he walked with quick steps across the room, "is your opinion of me! This is the estimation in which you hold me! I thank you for explaining it so fully."
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"As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be."
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"The first step to believing something is true is wanting to believe it is true... or being afraid it is."
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"We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a waste land. All the same, we are not often sad."
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"I love a good romantic comedy."
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"When beauty lives in the heart, it doesn't need to show up anywhere else."
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"I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics."
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"Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious."
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"I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose."
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"The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it."
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"My hands tend to be full enough dealing with people who hate me for who I am. Concentrate too hard on the millions of people who hate you for what you are and you're likely to turn into one of those unkempt, sloppy dressers who sag beneath the weight of the two hundred political buttons they wear pinned to their coats and knapsacks."
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"Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions."
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"Motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches."
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