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Quotes by Writer
"Certain voices heardare heardnot becausethey are phonetic...But, from one soulthey head, to another, in the form of magic.(Poem: When, When a not, Book: Ginger and Honey)"
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"Entrepreneurship is not a career choice, its a way of life!"
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"I never played inside as a kid - even in the rain I'd go out."
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"I was looped in on your little romantic quest. The only way to get me out without it looking suspicious was to suggest that I come after you dumb asses, since I supposedly know your crappy personality so well."
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"Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen."
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"(I think Rowdy might be the most important person in my life. maybe more important than my family.) Can your best friend be more importamt than your family?"
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"I'd been willing to kill for the people I loved for a very long time, now I had to start living for them."
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"It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again."
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"My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it."
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"I think it's odd that grown-ups quarrel so easily and so often and about such petty matters. Up to now I always thought bickering was just something children did and that they outgrew it."
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"Aomame raised her glass to the moon and asked, "Have you gone to bed with someone in your arms lately? The moon did not answer. "Do you have any friends? she asked. The moon did not answer. "Don't you get tired of always playing it cool? The moon did not answer."
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"Here though, there are no oppressors. No one's forcing you to do this. You willingly tie yourself to these leashes. And you willingly become utterly socially autistic. You no longer pick up on basic human communication clues. You're at a table with three humans, all of whom are looking at you and trying to talk to you, and you're staring at a screen! Searching for strangers in... Dubai!"
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"If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development, often a late development and very often indeed the end of societies that have been highly democratic. A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty; and they prefer to arm only one single sentinel to watch the city while they sleep."
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"My body was jerking and shaking, and I remembered John when he was in the Tunnels with Lena. The weird jerking and twitching he seemed unable to control.Was this what it felt like to be in the grip of Abraham Ravenwood?"
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"Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves."
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"Nevertheless, this type of propaganda has a special value, for it serves to convince those who sign the appeal, of the necessity for carrying on propaganda; so a corps of propagandists, if I may use the term, is thus trained."
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"A moment later, Liam's bright blue eyes opened, and he was seeing me. He just wasn't seeing Ruby."
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"Those who with high self esteem makes deep and lasting connections with their own unique way to make all the difference in the world."
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"After torturing our adrenaline by watching a horror movie for a couple of hours the places we are most afraid of are the doors and windows of the room even though they are the only ways for us to escape in case of occurrence such an event."
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"A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men... a good ruler has to learn his world's language... it's different for every world... the language of the rocks and growing things... the language you don't hear just with your ears... the Mystery of Life... not a problem to solve, but a reality to experience... Understanding must move with the flow of the process."
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"In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer."
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"In jealousy there is more self - love than love."
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"The Fremen have a simple, practical religion, he said."Nothing about religion is simple."
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"Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die."
Life,
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"Everything about this is embarrassing' she said. 'D'you know how embarrassing it is to mention good and evil in a scientific laboratory? Have you any idea? One of the reasons I became a scientist was not to have to think about that kind of thing."
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"Because if I lost her, I would be lost, too."
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"Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith."
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"We should always assist our friends and enemies in order to create a decent social environment."
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"Michael O'Toole had no difficulty recognizing which questions in life should be answered by physics and which ones by religion."
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"He found it both sad and fascinating that only through an artificial universe of video images could she establish contact with the real world."
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"A calamity can horrify an individual who is obsessed about life destruction and that particular individual could not indulge the beauty of living for the rest of his or her natural life."
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"I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps."
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"I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed."
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