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Quotes by Writer
"You cannot be fair to others without first being fair to yourself.Know that a well-honed sense of justice is a measure of personal experience, and all experience is a measure of self.Know that the highest expression of justice is mercy.Thus, as the supreme judge in your own court, you must have compassion for yourself.Otherwise, cede your gavel."
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"In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know."
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"I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David."
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"The Specters feast as vampires feast on blood, but the Specters' food is attention. A conscious and informed interest in the world. The immaturity of children is less attractive to them."
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"It was one of those situations I often find myself in while traveling. Something's said by a stranger I've been randomly thrown into contact with, and I want to say, 'Listen. I'm with you on most of this, but before we continue, I need to know who you voted for in the last election."
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"He had the prettiest hair she had ever seen on a man: dark brown, almost black, and soft like sable, it fell down to his shoulders. She wondered what he'd do if she threw some mud in it. Probably kill her."
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"I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there."
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"Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem."
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"Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution."
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"Every ruler should strive for his people to love him. But if they cannot love you, then make them fear you. Love is better, but fear will do the job."
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"And so Discovery drove on toward Saturn, as often as not pulsating with the cool music of the harpsichord, the frozen thoughts of a brain that had been dust for twice a hundred years."
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"When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment."
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"The bride waits here," she said, running her hands along her hair, taking in her image but seeming to drift away. "This is the moment you think about what you're doing. Who you're choosing. Who you will love. If it's right, Eddie, this can be such a wonderful moment."
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"Eloquence is the language of nature and cannot be learned in the schools but rhetoric is the creature of art which he who feels least will most excel in."
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"I think moms need to share information on a regular, intimate basis."
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"Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm."
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"Sunglasses are the best invention of world.Its hide the eyes which speak more then lips."
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"Only in a novel are all things given full play."
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"The illusion is reality. The only contradiction is the observer."
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"And she shrank away again, back into her darkness, and for a long while remained blotted safely away from living."
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"I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world."
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"For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [S]ix months before she died I sent a Mother's Day card. There was a horrible, mushy poem in it. I remember feeling "vaguely guilty."
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"Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop, suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head."
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"And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty."
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"In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation."
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"Now, before you make a movie, you have to have a script, and before you have a script, you have to have a story; though some avant-garde directors have tried to dispense with the latter item, you'll find their work only at art theaters."
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"You can't take the sky from me."
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"There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself."
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"I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination."
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"Before the house-maid had lit the fire the next day, or the sun gained any power over the cold, gloomy morning in January, Marianne, only half dressed, was kneeling against one of the window-seats for the sake of all the little light she could command from it, and writing as fast as a continual flow of tears would permit her."
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"When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird."
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