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Quotes by Writer
"Is the president purposefully using propaganda and hyperbole to garner the American public for support?"
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"Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all he can do."
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"So crosses don't do anything against your kind?" Sean asked."No," Arland said. "There is no mystical force repelling us.""Then why?""We're forbidden to kill a creature in a moment of prayer or invocation of their deity. Well, we can, technically, but you have to do penance and purify yourself and nobody wants to spend weeks praying and bathing themselves in the sacred cave springs. The water's only a fraction warmer than ice. When one of you holds up a cross, it's difficult to determine whether you're praying, invoking, or just waving it around. So the sane strategy is to back away."
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"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold."
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"A woman needs a man like a fish needs a net."
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"Whatever you do for the sole purpose of having others admire you, your efforts will most likely be in vain."
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"Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it."
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"Have you got any soul?" a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days yes, some days no. A few days ago I was right out; now I've got loads, too much, more than I can handle. I wish I could spread it a bit more evenly, I want to tell her, get a better balance, but I can't seem to get it sorted. I can see she wouldn't be interested in my internal stock control problems though, so I simply point to where I keep the soul I have, right by the exit, just next to the blues."
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"I had still never read one of the Bond books when the movie Dr. No came out."
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"There are hurts so deep that one cannot reach them or heal them with words."
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"I can pretty much guarantee that you will at some point find yourself doing something that at one point you swore you'd never do. You'll do it for the sake of getting high, either directly or indirectly. Trust me. It will happen. You might think you know yourself better than anyone, but you have yet to become acquainted with your addiction. It will introduce itself in ways that you never thought were possible."
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"Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost."
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"Some of the biggest changes that have happened are behind the scenes, in the way we produce the magazine. E.g., much of our production has been brought in-house via desktop publishing."
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"A crude age. Peace is stabilized with cannon and bombers, humanity with concentration camps and pogroms. We're living in a time when all standards are turned upside-down, Kern. Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What's more, there are whole races who believe it!"
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"Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it."
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"The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it."
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"Writing doesn't come easily to me. It gets more and more difficult."
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"Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality."
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"I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas."
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"I think one can tell a lot about a person from the way he chooses to let the stub of his cigarette burn out."
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"Make (the reader) think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. My values are positively all blanks, save so far as an excited horror, a promoted pity, a created expertness... proceed to read into them more or less fantastic figures."
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"Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes."
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"I loved him the way some people are to be loved - from a distance."
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"Are you driving this slow because you have no idea where we're going, or because you're hoping we jump out of the car & put ourselves out of our misery?"
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"A house may draw visitors but it is the possessor alone that can detain them."
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"I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I'm with friends is having a good time. I can't bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don't seem to be able to get any closer, and that's the problem."
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"In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it."
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"Many people begin their criticism with sincere praise followed by the word 'but', which signals that the criticism is about to begin. This may make the listener questions the sincerity of the praise. Use 'and' instead, and provide constructive advice rather than criticism. this is possibly the most effective ways to address an issue in written form without seeming false in your praise."
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"She walks, on the streets, with a face that, doesn't belong.It smiles more than, many put together, whole day long.Her heart misfit, a little chipped.And she likes to, call it once broken, but now stitched."
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"Stuff your eyes with wonder," he said, "live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away. To hell with that," he said, "shake the tree and knock the great sloth down on his ass."
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"No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people."
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"Motivation Push us out the door towards our goal."
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