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Quotes by Writer
"Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual."
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"I wander this path,So lost and yet so free.I have fallen so many times.My heart knows what I want,And yet, something holds me back,A demon that lusts over pointless endeavours.This path is a battlefield.One man will fall,One man will stand,A cycle till the end of my time.My heart's main fear that it will lose,And so, I lose and I lose.My heart, so insecure,My demon, oh, so confident.Stop."
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"Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of the highest admiration."
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"And even if you cared what they had to say, would you act upon their opinions and create your life from it? No. Than stop replaying their toxic words in your head, it's no good for your being and start doing the things that once made you, you."
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"A novel does not assert anything, a novel poses questions... The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is the legacy of the first European novel to the entire subsequent history of the novel. The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude."
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"Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy."
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"The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile."
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"We must all work in harmony with each other to stand up for what is right, to speak up for what is fair, and to always voice any corrections so that the ignorant become informed and justice is never ignored. Every time a person allows an act of ignorance to happen, they delay our progress for true change. Every person, molecule and thing matters. We become responsible for the actions of others the instant we become conscious of what they are doing wrong and fail to remind them of what is right."
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"I stand out not because I am six feet tall,But because I feel six feet tall."
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"Well,' said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return once more to London, 'it has been a pretty business for me! I have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what have I gained?''Experience,' said Holmes, laughing. 'Indirectly it may be of value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your existence."
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"It takes very little to govern good people."
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"Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it."
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"If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that."
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"To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody."
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"He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead."
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"The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone. Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all."
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"Be an individual, let out the self that hides away at the expense of others approval."
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"The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession."
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"It's not as if our lives are simply divided into light and dark. There's a shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the shadows is what a healthy intelligence does."
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"There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."
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"Conservatives must avoid the siren song of schism, or all is lost."
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"Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road, which is written from the viewpoint of a serial killer."
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"Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite."
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"God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers."
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"You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners."
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"June 2005 is the five year anniversary of the debut of Battle Pope."
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"I continue to be disappointed that people don't try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics."
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"The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude."
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"The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population."
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"No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable."
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