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Quotes by Writer
"Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox, that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home."
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"I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the reader, and I do hope they're on target."
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"One can make a case that says that since 85% of children being brought up in single family homes are being brought up by women that about 85% of elementary school teachers should be males to balance out the feminization that the boys and girls receive."
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"Their Love said, 'Made for Each OtherOur Love says, 'Made from Each Other"
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"Man as a thief cannot enjoy life he can only steal, kill and destroy harmony of society."
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"As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me."
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"When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before."
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"Let certain things be uncertain.Appreciate the puzzle that life is, insofar as I know, after a scheme of steps, all Crosswords have a solution, and every Sudoku makes a lot of sense."
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"And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore."
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"The things I believed in dont exist any more. It's foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now."
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"She put her hand on her hip. "Where are you going?""To the boat. You called me Lord Bill again. That means we're cool."Cerise slapped her forehead with the heel of her hand and followed him."
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"Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious."
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"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible."
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"They saw a Dream of Loveliness descending from the train."
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"The British regulatory system was revised, so that bigger profits were encouraged, which removed the option of big spending on programming. Quality just fell off a cliff, and all the old hands either left or were fired for being too expensive."
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"Silence is the sure sign that you're on your way out in Hollywood."
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"It's frustrating not to have more control over your material."
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"Hanging conversations, uncertain observations, incomplete imaginations.Unsent text messages, unreplied mails, undecided calls, unattended places.Unsettled pledges, distant searches.Some underutilized wages, some unseen dreams, sitting on dried leaves, believing the unbelieved, bidding adieu, to the accepted, how much she wanted todo, what was, detested!"
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"Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence."
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"Contemporary poetry is a kind of Reykjavik, a place where accessibility and intelligence have been fighting a Cold War by proxy for the last half-century."
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"The executive branch maneuvered this result deftly."
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"Everybody said, "Follow your heart". I did, it got broken."
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"If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it."
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"So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone."
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"When you're as hot as you are, no amount of ice will do."
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"Moon is a shining ball, from the window on my wall.Moon is blemish - laden, from the terrace of my mansion.Moon is a cold flame, from the porthole of my airplane.Yet I have heard, Moon is muse to philosophy brothers, Moon is nurse to romantic lovers.How can it be so various?Are we not the same?Or did the Moon really change?"
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"But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them."
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"Writing on a contract for a major studio you get the very best."
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"I hate my country. There are so many rich people who don't share their shit. They're like spoiled little ten-year-old bullies on the playground. They hog the monkey bars and the slide and the seesaw. And if you complain even a little bit, if you try to get just one spin on the merry-go-round, the bullies beat the shit out of you."
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"Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions."
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"If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you."
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