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Quotes by Writer
"Victorian rigidities were such that ladies were not even allowed to blow out candles in mixed company, as that required them to pucker their lips suggestively. They could not say that they were going "to bed"--that planted too stimulating an image--but merely that they were "retiring." It became effectively impossible to discuss clothing in even a clinical sense without resort to euphemisms. Trousers became "nether integuments" or simply "inexpressibles" and underwear was "linen." Women could refer among themselves to petticoats or, in hushed tones, stockings, but could mention almost nothing else that brushed bare flesh."
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"I've been tremendously moved by a bunch of odd books. Ross McDonald is very important to me. I love the Lew Archer books."
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"Most of us don't have to worry about being shot of we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the people I'm writing about are definitely not comfortable, and being shot while they're still inside is a good possibility."
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"There are those who believe we have need of more literature, of a large international publishing house, of a great peace newspaper, or the like. I am rather skeptical about this idea."
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"There were two and only two messages that could have been comprehended by what he said.But neither of them was soothing, neither of them was a lie."
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"If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after."
Food,
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"Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts."
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"Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding."
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"The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it."
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"Just think about this: haven't we been going just to and fro? The whole world rather. Years back, it was good to take vitamin supplements and today they are considered hampering body's natural immune. Sometime back, people were desperate to land up in high paying jobs, today there is a big entrepreneurship fad. Back in years, it was a pride to be settled in the city, now people are giving up all responsibilities to settle at a peaceful country side. What are we all really doing? We are moving from pillar to post, forward and backward on theories. We are all as confused as the next person. And unfortunately, we are all going to leave this world with barely being able to decipher much."
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"It is not only the hostility of others that may prevent us from questioning the status quo. Our will to doubt can be just as powerfully sapped by an internal sense that societal conventions must have a sound basis, even if we are not sure exactly what this may be, because they have been adhered to by a great many people for a long time. It seems implausible that our society could be gravely mistaken in its beliefs, and at the same time, that we would be alone in noticing the fact. We stifle our doubts, and follow the flock, because we cannot conceive of ourselves as pioneers of hitherto unknown difficult truths. It is for help in overcoming our meekness that we can turn to the philosopher."
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"It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want."
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"The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that."
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"The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write."
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"Casting is everything. If you get the right people they make you look good."
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"After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do."
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"I haven't felt the full weightof the world on my shoulders,and I haven't experienceda fraction of the painand embarrassment I've put out into this great bigwhite world."
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"I have not been a success, and probably never will be."
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"Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present."
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"The most sexy trait in a woman is - when she starts taking the world by a storm!"
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"At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen,You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun.And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten,And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done."
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"Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot."
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"I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning."
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"It's as if our electric grid didn't even have fences around it. This is disgraceful what we do, and what we don't do, to protect the Internet."
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"Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?"
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"You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations."
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"Don't waste your life by living in another person's shoes."
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"I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores."
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"I knelt in front of life, folded my hands and prayed for some more time; there couldn't be any. My heart bled and so did my tearful eyes.Time, they say, flies, but I saw it slowly passing by taking each of my tardy breaths with it as it walked out of my life."
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"Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly."
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"In the desert, the only god is a well."
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