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Quotes by Writer
"At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I failed, at least I took a few trees down with me."
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"I think I'm in the same mood as ever, but in some ways more mature. I guess you could say that, at 65, when you've seen the world shape up as I have, there are only two things you can do: laugh or kill yourself."
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"There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being."
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"You're not allowed to say anything about books because they're books, and books are, you know, God."
40
"The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use."
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"A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true."
Age,
40
"It takes a while to spoil a world, but it can be done."
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"Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk."
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"As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'"
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"Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles."
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"We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding."
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"One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim."
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"Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back."
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"Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork."
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"It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do."
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"I know there are a lot of readers that think I've got a very crappy marriage just because of the things going on with Rick and Lori but there's really nothing that's been like a mirror. I'm just making this stuff up."
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"Robots have a rich and storied history in movies."
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"I love fantasy. I love horror. I love musicals. Whatever doesn't really happen in life is what I'm interested in. As a way of commenting on everything that does happen in life, because ultimately the only thing I'm really interested in is people."
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"Calumny is a vice of curious constitution trying to kill it keeps it alive leave it to itself and it will die a natural death."
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"As we all know, blinking lights means science."
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"When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author."
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"But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns."
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"She crouched with her hand out. What the hell was she doing, "Here, kitty, kitty, kitty." Oh my God, she was retarded and I was going to kill Jim."
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"The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think."
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"Money brings courage with it but lock contentment behind."
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"The Ones You Forgot To Grab Their Contact Info , Were the Worthy Ones of your time and life."
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"He put this engine [a silver pocket watch] into our ears, which made an incessant noise, like that of a water-mill: and we conjecture it is either some unknown animal, or the god that he worships; but we are more inclined to the latter opinion, because he assured us, (if we understood him right, for he expressed himself very imperfectly) that he seldom did any thing without consulting it. He called it his oracle, and said, it pointed out the time for every action of his life."
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"It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction."
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"Harrogate saw them going along Blount Avenue Sunday morning. They wore outfits all cut from the same bolt of cloth and in the church pew standing six across they looked like a strip of gaudy wallpaper cut into those linked dolls madfolk pass their time in fashioning."
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"You think too much.''I suppose I do; but I can't help it, my mind is so terribly active. When I give myself, I give myself. I pay the penalty in my headaches, my famous headaches--a perfect circlet of pain! But I carry it as a queen carries her crown."
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"I suggest you give up now. According to my research, in a vampire-werewolf love triangle, the vampire always gets the girl."
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"Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky."
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"The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic... The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent."
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"The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets."
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