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Quotes by Writer
"The world citizen is a small leaf on the giant tree of life. They do not see a difference between the branch they were born on and the remaining branches on the tree, because they understand well that we are are all connected to the same roots. The world citizen sees each section of the world as part of their arm, leg, eyes, and heart. They do not class, contain or separate themselves or their identity by ethnicity or religion -- because they see their existence as a small part of a greater whole. When asked about their religion, the world citizen simply replies: 'My heart."
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"Carrying confidence isn't being the person everyone likes, it's being yourself, regardless of who likes you."
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"Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret."
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"When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home."
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"Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing."
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"Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem."
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"Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man."
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"Revolution and youth are closely allied. What can a revolution promise to adults? To some it brings disgrace, to others favor. But even that favor is questionable, for it affects only the worse half of life, and in addition to advantages it also entails uncertainty, exhausting activity and upheaval of settled habits.Youth is substantially better off: it is not burdened by guilt, and the revolution can accept young people in toto. The uncertainty of revolutionary times is an advantage for youth, because it is the world of the fathers that is challenged. How exciting to enter into the age of maturity over the shattered ramparts of the adult world!"
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"Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried."
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"There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best."
Sin,
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"True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it."
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"I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear."
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"It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others."
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"Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own."
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"Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it's like to write. I'm interested in the creative process. I'm fascinated by the disparity between who we are on the outside, and what we have bubbling away inside us."
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"In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible."
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"Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon."
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"We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't."
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"We've known for a long time that it was no longer possible to overturn this world, nor reshape it, nor head off its dangerous headlong rush. There's been only one possible resistance: to not take it seriously."
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"Blue Movie was based on an idea that Stanley Kubrick had. Somebody came by one day with some porn footage."
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"I'm all for selling books, but when guys are burning my house down, that's where I draw the line."
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"No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity."
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"There is a melancholy that stems from greatness."
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"If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people."
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"There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice."
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"You have to believe what you're saying if you're going to convince me. I just can't break that rule, even if I want to."
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