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Quotes by Writer
"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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"Reality is the name we give to our disappointments."
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"In ancient times, people weren't just male or female, but one of three types: male/male, male/female, female/female. In other words, each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with this arrangement and never really gave it much a thought. But then God took a knife and cut everybody in half, right down the middle. So after that the world was divided just into male and female, the upshot being that people spend their time running around trying to locate their missing other half."
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"You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time."
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"When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split."
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"The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice."
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"The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself."
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"The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone."
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"It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing."
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"Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation."
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"I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense."
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"The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich."
Poor,
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"Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up."
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"I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by something deep down, something absolute. Just as some people have a secret love for rainstorms, earthquakes, or blackouts, I liked that certain undefinable something directed my way by members of the opposite sex. For want of a better word, call it magnetism. Like it or not, it's a kind of power that snares people and reels them in."
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"The Internet provides a delivery system for pathological states of mind."
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"Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway."
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"Blue Movie was based on an idea that Stanley Kubrick had. Somebody came by one day with some porn footage."
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"I can't think of a performer who is better on television than in person."
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"Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities."
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"The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do."
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"We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do."
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"Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object."
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"Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores."
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"The ideal, it seems to me, is to show things happening and allow the reader to decide what they mean."
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"People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization."
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"I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical."
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