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Quotes by Writer
"If you think that your hardest problem is what color shoes to wear.You should get out more!"
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"Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours."
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"We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid."
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"My ideas fuck like rabbits."
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"One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more."
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"The most sacred thing is to be able to shut your own door."
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"The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism."
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"I don't believe in kicking away ladders. By that, I mean the ladders by which I ascended as a young writer, small magazines that didn't pay anything, and that sort of thing."
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"The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners."
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"Some writers may never create a work. Their purpose is to help others create their first word."
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"To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two."
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"I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not."
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"But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy."
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"But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong."
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"In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression."
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"I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true."
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"One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff."
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"Tirelessly they flew on and on, and tirelessly she kept pace. She felt a fierce joy possessing her, that she could command these immortal presences. And she rejoiced in her blood and flesh, in the rough pine bark she felt next to her skin, in the beat of her heart and the life of all her senses, and in the hunger she was feeling now, and in the presence of her sweet-voiced bluethroat dA mon, and in the earth below her and the lives of every creature, plant and animal both; and she delighted in being of the same substance as them, and in knowing that when she died her flesh would nourish other lives as they had nourished her."
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"When in doubt, poke the beehive with a stick to see if anything interesting flies out.I clapped my hands. 'I had no idea Pit teams had such pretty cheerleaders. Can you do it again, but with more spirit this time?"
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"The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for."
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"We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic."
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"The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests."
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"The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character."
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"Anyhow, even though I might go out on a date with a boy, emotionally I just wouldn't be able to concentrate. I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string. I'd be thinking about one unrelated thing after another. I don't know, I guess finally I want to be alone a little while longer. And I want to let my thoughts wander freely. In that sense, I guess, I'm probably still "on the road to recovery."
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"I think that my job is to observe people and the world, and not to judge them. I always hope to position myself away from so-called conclusions. I would like to leave everything wide open to all the possibilities in the world."
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"Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant."
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"My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work."
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"The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population."
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"I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher."
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"We developed a firm, practical feeling of solidarity, which grew, on the battlefield, into the best thing that the war produced - comradeship in arms."
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