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Quotes by Writer
"Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it."
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"Repetition is the mother of character and skill."
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"At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame."
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"I don't think we use television the way we should or the way the inventors intended."
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"There have been times when I reread - or at least leafed through - something because I'd sent a copy to a friend, and what usually happened was that I noticed dozens and dozens of clumsy phrases I wished I could rewrite."
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"What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!"
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"To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist."
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"What was in it for me? I wasn't asking for any sort of reciprocation, after all. Why didn't she want her erogenous zones stimulated? I have no idea. All I know is that you could, if you wanted to, find the answers to all sorts of difficult questions buried in that terrible war-torn interregnum between the first pubic hair and the first soiled Trojan."
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"Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity."
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"Dare not to criticise self, lift yourself up and set the boundaries for your worth. Speak kindly to self and hand your worries over to the wind,if you are here; you are successful already, start believing in your story, the destination will be meaningless if the journeys never been truly lived."
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"I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers."
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"I am trying like Klee, to create something that will have a life of its own, that can put me in real danger, a danger which I willingly take on myself."
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"I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900."
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"We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop."
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"Director of Ensuring the Future."
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"All my life, in nameless, indeterminate ways, I'd tried to complete my life with someone else--first my father, then Hugh, even Whit, and I didn't want that anymore. I wanted to belong to myself."
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"Without much ardor but quite unmistakably, she was writhing her hips as if she were dancing. When he was very close, he saw' her gaping mouth: she was yawning lengthily, insatiably: the great open hole was rocking gently atop die mechanically dancing body. Jean-Marc thought: she's dancing and she's bored.He reached the seawall: down below, on the beach, he saw men with their heads thrown back releasing kites into the air. They were doing it with passion, and Jean-Marc recalled his old theory: there are three kinds of boredom: passive boredom: the girl dancing and yawning; active boredom: kite-lovers; and rebellious boredom: young people burning cars and smashing shop windows."
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"It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs. One sniff and I'd go all the way."
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"I want to spend my time exploring the characters we've already got here. I want to give them more time to shine before the team gets to have 400 members."
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"We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend."
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"What mattered was that these beliefs had swept through the souls of everyone else like a plague. He couldn't see the end of it. Even a hundred years in the future, he knew, the roots still had not been fully pulled up from society. Wherever, whenever he went, the color of his skin set the boundaries of what he could achieve, and there was very little - if any - recourse for finding a way around it."
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"How can you squander even one more day not taking advantage of the greatest shifts of our generation? How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?"
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"He felt God the same way arthritic monks felt rain coming in their joints. He felt only a hint of him."
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"Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher."
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"Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the tribe connect to itself."
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"A man convinced against his will Is of the same opinion still"
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"When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed."
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"The issue is complex, but like many matters in Sudan, it is not as complex as Khartoum would want the west to believe."
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"Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws."
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"Live an active life among people who are doing worthwhile things, keep eyes and ears and mind and heart open to absorb truth, and then tell of the things you know, as if you know them. The world will listen, for the world loves nothing so much as real life."
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"Creativity is a unique characteristics that a person can posses from his or her own knowledge when he or she is creating changes in society that can benefit a vast amount of people."
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