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Quotes by Writer
"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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"The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air.It rings to announce endings and beginnings. And it rings because there is fresh promise and wonder in the skies.Its clear tones resound in the placid silence of the winter day, and echo long into the silver-blue serenity of night.The bell can only be seen at the turning of the year, when the days wind down into nothing, and get ready to march out again.When you hear the bell, you feel a tug at your heart.It is your immortal inspiration."
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"People simplify 'Apollonian' into 'mild', and 'calm', and 'cool'. But 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian' are two sides of one coin--a nun kneeling in her cell, holding perfectly still, can be in ecstacy more frenzied than any priestess of Pan Priapus celebrating the vernal equinox."
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"I was not popular in school, and I was definitely not a ladies' man. And I had a very painful adolescence, because it was all very strange to me. It wasn't like I got beat up, but the humiliation and isolation, and the existential 'God, I exist, and nobody cares' of being a teenager were extremely pronounced for me."
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"A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force."
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"But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966."
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"It struck him that how you spent Christmas was a message to the world about where you were in life, some indication of how deep a hole you had managed to burrow for yourself."
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"Science fiction is not prescriptive, it is descriptive."
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"This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other."
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"Night came on, the lamps were lighted, the tables near him found occupants, and Paris began to wear that peculiar evening look of hers which seems to say, in the flare of windows and theatre-doors, and the muffled rumble of swift-rolling carriages, that this is no world for you unless you have your pockets lined and your scruples drugged."
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"Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here."
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"Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time."
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"I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart."
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"If things continue this way, there will be two societies - or at least I hope there will be two - the one you're helping create, and an alternative to it. You and your ilk will live, willingly, joyfully, under constant surveillance, watching each other always, commenting on each other, voting and liking and disliking each other, smiling and frowning, and otherwise doing nothing much else."
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"Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas."
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"[Or perhaps my friends should have realized that they shouldn't have left behind the FRICKING REASON FOR THEIR PROTEST!And that thought just cracked me up.]It was like my friends had walked over the backs of baby seals in order to get to the beach where they could protest against the slaughter of baby seals."
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"Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse."
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"And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people."
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"As soon as I was old enough to drive, I got a job at a local newspaper. There was someone who influenced me. He wrote a column for The Guardian from this tiny village in India."
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"Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to read his journals, diaries and many thousands of the letters."
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"One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen."
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"Gordie, the white boy genius, gave me this book by a Russian dude named Tolstoy, who wrote, 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.' Well, I hate to argue with a Russian genius, but Tolstoy didn't know Indians, and he didn't know that all Indian families are unhappy for the same exact reasons: the frikkin' booze."
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"Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment."
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"All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few."
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"If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person."
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"Paranoia is just having the right information."
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"I have breathed my way through so many people I felt wronged by; through so many situations I couldn't change. Sometimes while doing this I have breathed in acceptance and breathed out love. Sometimes I've breathed in gratitude and out forgiveness. Sometimes I haven't been able to muster anything beyond the breath itself, my mind forced blank with nothing but the desire to be free of sorrow and rage."
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"It bothered me that the bag bothered me more than head did, but what are you going to do? A person doesn't conciously choose what he focuses on. Those things choose you, and, once they do, nothing, it seems, can shake them."
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"One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion."
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"Hard work make us strong behaviour and intentions makes us unique."
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"I'm not alone, my pain walk with me step by step sometime if i go ahead its come fast and catch me sometime its wait for me some step ahead.what a good friend."
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