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Quotes by Writer
"I leave the human cockroaches to discuss their heroin and child pornography."
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"Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom."
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"It's interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant."
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"Don't judge someone's choices without first knowing their reason."
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"I think Hadley is to Rice as Scowcroft was to Kissinger; not inclined to think or act independently."
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"A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore."
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"We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat."
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"It was such a strange tormenting feeling when your daemon was pulling at the link between you; part physical pain deep in the chest, part intense sadness and love. Everyone tested it when they were growing up: seeing how far they could pull apart, coming back with intense relief."
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"You can hide memories, suppress them, but you can't erase the history that produced them."
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"My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over."
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"A dense wall of greenery bordered it, ...an impenetrable barrier of oaks, evergreen shrubs, blackberry that somehow resisted the frost, and thorns. In the defense department, the witches would make Sleeping Beauty's evil witch weep with jealousy."
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"Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be."
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"I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know."
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"You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal."
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"True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary and nothing but what is necessary."
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"John Grady looked at the table. The paper cat stepped thin and slant among the shapes of cats thereon. He looked up again. Yessir, he said. Just me and him."
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"If you're writing a book that takes place in New York in the moment, you can't not write about 9-11; you can't not integrate it. My main character's view is the Statue of Liberty and the Trade Center. It doesn't have to take over, but it has to be acknowledged."
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"Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time is that none of us has ever been permitted to think he is born a d'Anconia. We are expected to become one."
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"We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes."
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"You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree."
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"In the '60s, parents were told to let their teens rebel, explore their boundaries. Increasingly the same message is being given to the parents of tweens."
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"I am Ubik. Before the universe was, I am. I made the suns. I made the worlds. I created the lives and the places they inhabit; I move them here, I put them there. They go as I say, then do as I tell them. I am the word and my name is never spoken, the name which no one knows. I am called Ubik, but that is not my name. I am. I shall always be."
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"It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature."
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"I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative."
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"I'm opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it's plain common sense that producers should target their product with some kind of sensitivity."
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"Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive."
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"We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure."
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"I am already inherently full and complete as I am. Man doesn't need woman and woman doesn't need man in order to experience his or her inherent fullness."
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