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Quotes by Writer
"Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil."
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"It is true that the movie is perhaps my most politically-charged. The story is thrust into motion by the idea of what do you do when your 13 year old daughter comes home pregnant. And not only is she pregnant, but she wants to keep the baby."
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"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human."
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"I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is."
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"I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words."
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"A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone."
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"To understand a literary style, consider what it omits."
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"Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions."
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"We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't."
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"To love without role, without power plays, is revolution."
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"I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense."
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"Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic."
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"You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend."
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"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried."
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"Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway."
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"Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another."
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"Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do."
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"Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it."
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"When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to."
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"Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion."
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"In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools."
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"One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood."
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"I can't think of a performer who is better on television than in person."
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"There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on."
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"Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?"
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"Like dry ground welcoming the rain, he let the solitude, silence, and loneliness soak in."
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"Movies and television shows based on comic books constitute the worst single genre in the history of filmed entertainment (with the exception of porn)."
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"What few rules appear to be in place are all made up."
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"I love summer. Because it means I can wear a bikini top and shorts, even just to go shopping."
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"I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves."
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"Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away."
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"There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience."
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"Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred."
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