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Quotes by Writer
"We spent all those years talking about stuff we had in common, and the last few months noticing all the ways we were different and it broke both of our hearts."
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"When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence. Let it be the most obvious fabrication and you will still believe whatever truth is in it, because you can not deny truth no matter how shabbily it is dressed."
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"Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be."
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"The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words."
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"The brains of members of the Press departments of motion-picture studios resemble soup at a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them."
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"So this is it," said Arthur, "We are going to die.""Yes," said Ford, "except... no! Wait a minute!" He suddenly lunged across the chamber at something behind Arthur's line of vision. "What's this switch?" he cried."What? Where?" cried Arthur, twisting round."No, I was only fooling," said Ford, "we are going to die after all."
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"I believe in the goodness of imagination."
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"The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them."
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"I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!"
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"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about."
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"I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right."
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"Imagination can turn any situation into a positive situation. Let your creativity run wild. Let yourself create new worlds, new times and new thoughts. Don't think yourself immature for having fun in dull times. Let that creativity flow into your everyday life and create beautiful new experiences."
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"I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house."
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"If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass."
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"There is an easy way to measure our inner levels of abjectness and friendliness to ourselves: we should examine how well we response to noise."
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"Eh bien, then, you are crazy, or appear crazy or you think you are crazy, and possibly you may be crazy."
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"It is a miserable thing to live in suspense, it is the life of the spider."
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"Nobody knows you.You don't know yourself.And I, who am half in love with you,What am I in love with?My own imaginings?"
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"Oh, I've no patience with these romances. They're the ruin of all order. It's a thousand pities they ever happened."
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"When you walk a tightrope, you don't want to be eating buttered popcorn."
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"Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind."
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"This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten."
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"What's with the serum?"I don't know, but it sounds ominous. We better put a telepathic direction finder on Benway. The man's not to be trusted. Might do almost anything...Turn a massacre into a sex orgy..."Or a joke."Precisely. Arty type...No principles..."
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"Friendship like credit is highest where it is not used."
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"We are not sheep or cows. God didn't create fences for us or boundaries to contain our nationalities. Man did. God didn't draw up religious barriers to separate us from each other. Man did. And on top of that, no father would like to see his children fighting or killing each other. The Creator favors the man who spreads loves over the man who spreads hate. A religious title does not make anyone more superior over another. If a kind man stands by his conscience and exhibits truth in his words and actions, he will stand by God regardless of his faith. If mankind wants to evolve, we must learn from our past mistakes. If not, our technology will evolve without us."
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"Everything is possible, isn't it? The world soon teaches one that!"
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"Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done."
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"Here, by the grace of God and an inside straight, we have a personality untouched by the psychotic taboos of our tribe - and you want to turn him into a carbon copy of every fourth-rate conformist in this frightened land! Why don't you go whole hog? Get him a brief case and make him carry it wherever he goes - make him feel shame if he doesn't have it."
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"For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire."
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"It is one thing to believe in witches, and quite another to believe in witch-smellers."
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"The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte."
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"The sun's rays have vision and give us vision. However, it is the birds' eyes and the two invisible angels by your side that record everything. Nothing goes unnoticed throughout the universe. Wherever there is a vibration, there are eyes and ears. Some energies don't need ears or vision to see or hear, they can feel what is in your heart and tap into all your sins and fears."
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"I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets."
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"You see, the mailman saw your husband during one of his walks.""He's my fiancé," I told her. "We are living in sin."Heather blinked, momentarily knocked off her stride, but recovered. "Oh, that's nice.""It's very nice. I highly recommend it."
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