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Quotes by Writer
"The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons."
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"The newspaper is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman."
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"Live in day - tight compartments."
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"Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest."
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"History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion - ie., none to speak of."
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"Creativity is one of your greatest gifts. It resides deep inside you impacting your every thought. It is attached to a never ending source and is one of the main aspects of who you are. Your very essence is as a creator. No one creates exactly like you do. Your thoughts and actions color the world."
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"Why would God provide heaven on earth when he's planned the real thing for you in eternity?"
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"In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that are offered."
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"I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male."
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"Not all doors open in the same direction and with the same effort!"
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"Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass."
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"Dad!" Jesus yelled."Yes, son," God said."That star's light just went out," Jesus told his dad."Yes, I know," God replied."But, why?" Jesus asked."Sometimes, a man can become so self obsessed, that the devil seduces him with wealth, power and other worldly delights," God said."But aren't you worried that he will turn all the stars off?" Jesus now asked his dad.God smiled, "No, because for every star that goes out, I just put up another million or so."Jesus looked back at the night sky and sure enough, there were many more stars now. He smiled."
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"You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow."
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"O Heavenly Children, God's messengers are as limitless as the fish in the sea. They come in all colors, regions, languages and creeds. But their message is one and the same, don't you see? He only wishes to unite all His children under one family tree."
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"Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show."
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"Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America."
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"The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them."
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"I have not yet tranquillised myself enough to see Frederica."
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"It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others."
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"Back in Russia we were dirt-poor. Here in the West we are still poor but have risen above the dirt to tower alongside stalks of grass!"
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"Only people of a certain disposition are frightened of being alone for the rest of their lives at twenty-six, we were of that disposition."
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"I don't have the heart to tell my sons that the older one gets, the less funny literature becomes-and they would refuse to believe me if I tried to explain that some people don't think jokes even belong in proper books. I won't bother breaking the news that, if they remain readers, they will insist on depressing themselves for about a decade of their lives, in a concerted search of gravitas through literature."
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"Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house."
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"People say I talk slowly. I talk in a way sometimes called laconic. The phone rings, I answer, and people ask if they've woken me up. I lose my way in the middle of sentences, leaving people hanging for minutes. I have no control over it. I'll be talking, and will be interested in what I'm saying, but then someone-I'm convinced this what happens-someone-and I wish I knew who, because I would have words for this person-for a short time, borrows my head. Like a battery is borrowed from a calculator to power a remote control, someone, always, is borrowing my head."
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"My grandmother's last act on earth was a call for forgiveness, love, and tolerance."
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"Accidental sex. He made it sound like I fell down, and there just happened to be an erection in the way."
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"Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so."
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"Tolkien, who created this marvellous vehicle, doesn't go anywhere in it. He just sits where he is. What I mean by that is that he always seems to be looking backwards, to a greater and more golden past; and what's more he doesn't allow girls or women any important part in the story at all. Life is bigger and more interesting than The Lord of the Rings thinks it is."
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"Grimes believed in what he did, with no doubts. Though he was older than me by over a decade, I suddenly felt old. Some things mark your soul, not in years but in blood and pain and selling off parts of yourself to get the bad guys, until you finally look in the mirror and aren't sure which side you're on anymore. There comes a point when having a badge doesn't make you the good guy, it just makes you one of the guys. I needed to be one of the good guys, or what the hell was I doing?"
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"At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself should have joint possession of whatever had been peculiar to each of the different kinds of being."
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"I had never been much interested in Pluto, too many facts and too much isolation."
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"Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly."
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"He dragged me back - just in time. A tree had crashed down on to the side walk, just missing us. Poirot stared at it, pale and upset. "It was a near thing that! But clumsy, all the same - for I had no suspicion - at least hardly any suspicion. Yes, but for my quick eyes, the eyes of a cat, Hercule Poirot might now be crushed out of existence - a terrible calamity for the world. And you, too, mon ami - though that would not be such a national catastrophe." "Thank you," I said coldly."
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"My mother was a good Catholic -- she went to mass twice a week at St. Mary's in Richmond, but my father was an Orthodox Eclectic."
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