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Quotes by Writer
"Miss Bingley's congratulations to her brother, on his approaching marriage, were all that was affectionate and insincere."
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"Well, so far, at least, my own ideas always take priority over those of other writers. As long as the well doesn't run dry, I imagine this will be the case."
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"We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love."
Love,
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"I was lieing to myself when I thought I was lost, I have never been lost - I just wasn't ready to be found."
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"I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important."
36
"A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer."
36
"She was a coquette; he was sure she had a spirit of her own; but in her bright, sweet, superficial little visage there was no mockery, no irony. Before long it became obvious that she was much disposed towards conversation."
36
"Life's like a ball game. You gotta take a swing at whatever comes along before you wake up and find out it's the ninth inning."
Life,
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"At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer."
36
"Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!"
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"It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state."
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"You go on by doing the best you can. You go on by being generous. You go on by being true. You go on by offering comfort to others who can't go on. You go on by allowing the unbearable days to pass and allowing the pleasure in other days. You go on by finding a channel for your love and another for your rage."
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"It's early days. A few skeletons are bound to keep jumping out of the closet."
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"There is a vast difference between games and play. Play is played for fun, but games are deadly serious and you do not play them to enjoy yourself."
36
"It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that."
36
"Until we realize that things might not be we cannot realize that things are."
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"It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is - although we all think that we are."
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"Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused."
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"I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books."
36
"I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house."
36
"After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central article of the new Constitution."
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"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words."
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"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills."
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"Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part."
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"Bill, The United States is not a company. It is a country."
36
"Further, I'm obsessed with how language contorts and creates bodies."
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"It was an odd situation. For a century and a half, men got rid of their own hair, which was perfectly comfortable, and instead covered their heads with something foreign and uncomfortable. Very often it was actually their own hair made into a wig. People who couldn't afford wigs tried to make their hair look like a wig."
36
"I was not allowed to take notes but my friend and I memorised those two and a half pages. Most people talked to me because of the warning. They knew this book was not going to be the official line."
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"Today's enemies can be your friends tomorrow. And today's friends can be tomorrow's enemies."
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"As between mileage and experience choose experience."
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"She did not believe that the world was a vale of tears but rather a joke that God had played and that it was idiotic to take it seriously if He himself never had."
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