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Quotes by Writer
"It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do."
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"Vous eprouves trop d'emotion, Hastings, It affects your hands and your wits. Is that a way to fold a coat? And regard what you have done to my pyjamas. If the hairwash breaks what will befall them?''Good heavens, Poirot,' I cried, 'this is a matter of life and death. What does it matter what happens to our clothes?''You have no sense of proportion Hastings. We cannot catch a train earlier than the time that it leaves, and to ruin one's clothes will not be the least helpful in preventing a murder."
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"If they weren't good for you in 2015, they won't be great for you in 2016. Let them go."
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"The trick, it seems to me, is to stave off regret. That's what the whole thing is about. And we can't stave it off forever, because it is impossible not to make the mistakes that let regret in, but the best of us manage to limp on into our sixties or seventies before we succumb. Me, I made it to about thirty-seven, and David made it to the same age, and my brother gave up the ghost even before that. And I'm not sure that there is a cure for regret. I suspect not."
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"In moments of great stress, the mind focuses itself upon some quite unimportant matter which is remembered long afterwards with the utmost fidelity, driven in, as it were, by the mental stress of the moment. It may be some quite irrelevant detail, like the pattern of a wallpaper, but it will never be forgotten."
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"He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe."
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"Challenge yourself everyday to do better and be better. Remember, growth starts with a decision to move beyond your present circumstances."
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"I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating."
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"When the shit hits the fan, you really have to ask yourself why you weren't sitting on the toilet."
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"The problem with introspection is that it has no end."
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"A sage is a former fool who has become tired of himself.A foolish sage is one who forgets this.Remember, or come full circle."
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"A great Musician Falls a Sleep PLAYING HIS Favorite Solo on and on endlessly."
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"The world you are in "Is the true hell.The journey to Truth itselfIs what quickens the heart to become lighter.The lighter the heart, the purer it is.The purer the heart, the closer to light it becomes.And the heavier the heart,The more chained to this hellIt will remain."
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"I believe I encountered death, which was a bit too much for a seven-year-old."
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"What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?"
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"It is a good principle in science not to believe any 'fact'---however well attested---until it fits into some accepted frame of reference. Occasionally, of course, an observation can shatter the frame and force the construction of a new one, but that is extremely rare. Galileos and Einsteins seldom appear more than once per century, which is just as well for the equanimity of mankind."
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"In real life I do violence, but for psychic stuff I do other things better."
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"If you have heard that I am wild, you can contradict the rumour,(...) I am tame. I am quite tame; I am about the tamest beast that crawls. I drink too much of the same kind of whisky at the same time every night. I even drink about the same amount too much. I go to the same number of public-houses. I meet the same damned women with mauve faces. I hear the same number of dirty stories- generally the same dirty stories. You may assure my friends, Inglewood, that you see before you a person whom civilization has thoroughly tamed."
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"I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based."
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"Whatever modern democracies may tell themselves about their commitment to free speech and to diversity of opinion, the values of a given society will uncannily match those of whichever organizations have the scale to pay for runs of thirty-second slots around the nightly news bulletin."
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"I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate."
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"The enemy of humanism is not faith; the enemy of humanism is hate, is fear, is ignorance, is the darker part of man that is in every humanist, every person, in the world. That is the thing we have to fight. Faith is something we have to embrace. Faith in God is believing absolutely in something with no proof whatsoever. Faith in humanity means believing absolutely in something with a huge amount of proof to the contrary."
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"There are many members of parliament present here who know as well as I do that, if a man has not already been converted, it will require a great deal more than a letter of appeal to achieve conversion."
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"Truth recognizes truth, just as a man with real talent is the first to recognize another with real talent. Likewise, superficiality attracts others with an artificial surface. Only the superficial applaud the superficial. A man of true substance rejects the superficial because he seeks only truth and depth. Based on this reasoning, you can easily measure the weight of any man's character just by observing who he admires."
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"Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons."
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"The American girl isn't ANY girl, she's a remarkable specimen in a remarkable species."
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"Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head."
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"In this universe the night was falling; the shadows were lengthening towards an east that would not know another dawn. But elsewhere the stars were still young and the light of morning lingered; and along the path he once had followed, Man would one day go again."
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"The purpose of influence is to 'speak up for those who have no influence.' (Pr.31:8) It's not about you."
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"A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it?"
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"I don't know about the rest of you, but I'd be up for hearing about the one-eyed chick."
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"Our actions and words built invaluable relationship."
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"Connie felt again the tightness, niggardliness of the men of her generation. They were so tight, so scared of life!"
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