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Quotes by Writer
"The act of true reading is in its very essence democratic. Consider the nature of what happens when we read a book - and I mean, of course, a work of literature, not an instruction manual or a textbook - in private, unsupervised, un-spied-on, alone. It isn't like a lecture: it's like a conversation. There's a back-and-forthness about it. The book proposes, the reader questions, the book responds, the reader considers. We bring our own preconceptions and expectations, our own intellectual qualities, and our limitations, too, our own previous experiences of reading, our own temperament, our own hopes and fears, our own personality to the encounter."
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"I can see by your face that I'll never persuade you. And that's surprising, because usually you at least try to see my side."I can see your side," said Cecily. "I've got a much clearer view of it than you do, from over here on my side."
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"I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback."
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"This morning I lay in the bathtub thinking how wonderful it would be if I had a dog like Rin Tin Tin. I'd call him Rin Tin Tin too, and I'd take him to school with me, where he could stay in the janitor's room or by the bicycle racks when the weather was good."
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"People are like lights. Some are colored lights and draw attention to themselves. Others are clear lights. They shine on people in around them."
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"Her philosophy was, if it had a pulse, it could be killed. I didn't really have a philosophy, but I could see how talking with the school director would be difficult for her. If he said something she didn't like, chopping him to tiny pieces wouldn't exactly help me get into the school."
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"Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized."
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"However, I think I managed to reach a new level with Koko, and I will always be grateful for the experience."
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"Numbers constitute the only universal language."
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"I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore."
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"And what's beyond vastness? It shrinks."
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"What are men to rocks and mountains?"
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"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success."
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"I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it."
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"People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange."
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"But you're right, I did think about acting more and then decided against it."
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"Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time."
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"For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious."
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"Why should one U.S. airman give up his life when our national security is not in imminent danger?"
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"Magic's just science that we don't understand yet."
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"Those who have hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment."
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"The word phobic has its place when properly used, but lately it's been declawed by the pompous insistence that most animosity is based upon fear rather than loathing.... I hate computers. My hatred is entrenched, and I nourish it daily. I'm comfortable with it, and no community outreach program will change my mind."
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"For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict."
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"So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny."
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"But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begin."
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"I see little alteration at Lyons since I formerly passed through it. Its manufactories are, nevertheless, flourishing, though less improvement than could be expected is visible in the external aspect of the place."
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"Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing."
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