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Quotes by Writer
"Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly."
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"Logic works, metaphysics contemplates."
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"Trust yourself. You've survived a lot, and you'll survive whatever is coming."
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"The stories get passed on and the truth gets passed over. As the sayin goes. Which I reckon some would take as meanin that the truth cant compete. but I dont believe that. I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It don't move about from place to place and it dont change from time to time. You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt. You cant corrupt it because that's what it is."
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"Do you wrestle with dreams? Do you contend with shadows? Do you move in a kind of sleep? Time has slipped away. Your life is stolen. You tarried with trifles, Victim of your folly."
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"Ah, they said. Qué bueno. And for a long time afterward, he would have reason to recall those smiles and reflect upon the goodwill that inspired them — for it had the power to protect, to confer honor, and to strengthen resolve. It had the power to hear men and to bring them to safety long after all other resources were exhausted."
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"Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you trying to be as human as you can be?"
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"Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being."
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"A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality."
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"No one can tell you what your life is goin to be, can they?No. It's never like what you expected.Quijada nodded. If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?"
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"To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in."
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"To know how to hide one's ability is great skill."
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"Those who still think listening isn't an art should see if they can do it half as well."
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"I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking."
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"He was looking for immensity. His life was hopelessly small, everything surrounding him was nondescript and gray. And death is absolute; it is indivisible and indissoluble. The presence of the girl was pathetic (a few caresses and a lot of meaningless words), but her absolute absence was infinitely grand; when he imagined a girl buried in a field, he suddenly discovered the nobility of pain and the grandeur of love. But it was not only the absolute but also bliss he was looking for in his dreams of death."
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"When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow."
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"Let him who desires peace prepare for war."
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"The natural, proper, fitting shape of the novel might be that of a sack, a bag. A book holds words. Words hold things. They bear meanings. A novel is a medicine bundle, holding things in a particular, powerful relation to one another and to us."
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"Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved."
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"These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves."
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"Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort."
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"Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems."
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"All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and if I do, it's not very loud. That doesn't mean I don't like the movie."
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"Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left."
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"If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery."
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