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Quotes by Writer
"It's not lost on me that I'm so busy recording life, I don't have time to really live it."
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"It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it."
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"If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words' worth of very necessary experience."
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"The superman exists and he's American."
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"Liberty and Freedom are complex concepts. They go back to religious ideas of Free Will and are related to the Ruler Mystique implicit in absolute monarchs. Without absolute monarchs patterned after the Old Gods and ruling by the grace of a belief in religious indulgence, Liberty and Freedom would never have gained their present meaning. These ideals owe their very existence to past examples of oppression. And the forces that maintain such ideas will erode unless renewed by dramatic teaching or new oppressions. This is the most basic key to my life."
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"Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent."
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"They are not mad. They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous."
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"Since we have placed justification in the revelation of Jesus Christ formed and brought forth in the heart, there working his works of righteousness and bringing forth the fruits of the Spirit."
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"She is not with me,this grief is not bigger then this happiness that she is with her choice."
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"Of course play with others life if you are good playerBut once you have to think How your reaction if your children meet with same player like you ?is it make you happy ? then continue."
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"All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts."
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"The poems are all wrong. It's a bang, a really big bang. Not a whimper. And sometimes gold can stay."
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"Insane people -- psychologically defined, not legally define -- are not in touch with reality."
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"Letterman... he got his problems. We don't get along too well."
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"One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a man is keen on reading, I think he ought to open his mind to some older man who knows him and his life, and to take his advice in the matter, and above all, to discuss with him the first books that interest him."
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"In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story."
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"You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art."
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"The last year of her college career was wheeling slowly round. She could see ahead her examination and her departure. She had the ash of disillusion gritting under her teeth. Would the next move turn out the same? Always the shining doorway ahead; and then, upon approach, always the shining doorway was a gate into another ugly yard, dirty and active and dead. Always the crest of the hill gleaming ahead under heaven: and then, from the top of the hill only another sordid valley full of amorphous, squalid activity."
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"I've always had a love affair with the ocean. It's my one and only true love."
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"Government cannot be religious and self-assertive at the same time. Religious experience needs a spontaneity which laws inevitably suppress. And you cannot govern without laws. Your laws eventually must replace morality, replace conscience, replace even the religion by which you think to govern. Sacred ritual must spring from praise and holy yearnings which hammer out a significant morality. Government, on the other hand, is a cultural organism particularly attractive to doubts, questions and contentions. I see the day coming when ceremony must take the place of faith and symbolism replaces morality."
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"Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it."
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"If I'm grumpy I sure do enjoy writing The Walking Dead."
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"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere."
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"In philosophy class I think we finally decided that 'good' is an infinitely recursive term - it can't be defined except in terms of itself. Good is good because it's better than bad, though why it's better to be good than bad depends on how you define good, and on and on."
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"If the last to know he's an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected."
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"It might be depressing, but it's also the truth that no one has the power, the money, or the resources to save everyone on the planet from going hungry, living in poverty or allowed basic human rights. But consider the other side of this: there are people in this world who truly WOULD do all of these things for everyone if only they could. There is hope after all."
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"It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have 'something worth fighting for' they do not feel like fighting."
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"Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means."
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"I designed 'Buffy' to be an icon, to be an emotional experience, to be loved in a way that other shows can't be loved. Because it's about adolescence, which is the most important thing people go through in their development, becoming an adult."
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"There's something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are. The stars look like they're so close, you could reach out and touch them. But you can't. Sometimes things look a lot closer than they are."
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"For some women, they need a man. For others, men need them."
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"It was in the horizon of existence, that the Big Bang must have created our souls, we loved each other like the plane of time doesn't hold a fleck of control over us."
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"They ran to the museums for paintings. I ran to the roof for sunsets."
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