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Quotes by Writer
"The past cannot hurt you. It's all in your head."
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"Por que en las epocas oscurasse escribe con tinta invisible?Why in the darkest agesdo they write with invisible ink?"
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"I've always said fantasy is sort of 'stealth philosophy'."
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"Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like a good person so that people (including myself) will approve of me? Is there a difference? How do I ever actually know whether I'm bullshitting myself, morally speaking?"
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"(About Sartre...)His death does not separate us. My death will not bring us together again. That is how things are. It is in itself splendid that we were able to live our lives in harmony for so long."
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"He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the word and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality,known or not."
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"Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting."
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"The natural, proper, fitting shape of the novel might be that of a sack, a bag. A book holds words. Words hold things. They bear meanings. A novel is a medicine bundle, holding things in a particular, powerful relation to one another and to us."
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"I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between."
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"She will never grow old, her heart is too beautiful."
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"The only really happy folk are married women and single men."
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"Because of social strictures against even the mildest swearing, America developed a particularly rich crop of euphemistic expletives - darn, durn, goldurn, goshdad, goshdang, goshawful, blast, consarn, confound, by Jove, by jingo, great guns, by the great horn spoon (a nonce term first cited in the Biglow Papers), jo-fired, jumping Jehoshaphat, and others almost without number - but even this cautious epithets could land people in trouble as late as the 1940s."
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"But that's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and worth the doing."
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"No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories."
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"And she realized that she (her soul) was not at all involved, only her body, her body alone. The body that had betrayed her and that she had sent out into the world among other bodies."
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"None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them."
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"Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne."
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"God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth."
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"Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder."
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"Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a very fine man. Few women could think more of their personal appearance than he did; nor could the valet of any new-made lord be more delighted with the place he held in society. He considered the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a baronetcy; and the Sir Walter Elliot, who united these gifts, was the constant object of his warmest respect and devotion."
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"False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis."
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"Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast."
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"Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy."
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"It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest."
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"Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them."
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"In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.'What is it then?'It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but to hide."
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"The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich."
Poor,
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"We are always - always- in choice."
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"If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
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"Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them."
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"I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again."
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"There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect."
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