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Quotes by Writer
"Grief is a good thing. It's the way we get through the transitions of life."
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"Each evening, I ached for the shelter of my tent, for the smallest sense that something was shielding me from the entire rest of the world, keeping me safe not from danger, but from vastness itself. I loved the dim, clammy dark of my tent, the cozy familiarity of the way I arranged my few belongings all around me each night."
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"We are never so happy or so unhappy as we think."
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"Books have become products, like cereal or perfume or deodorant."
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"And there are my cats, engaged in a ritual that goes back thousands of years, tranquilly licking themselves after the meal. Practical animals, they prefer to have others provide the food ... some of them do. There must have been a split between the cats who accepted domestication and those who did not."
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"History was a bitch sometimes. You couldn't change where you were from. But still, you didn't have to stay there. You didn't have to stay stuck in the past, like the ladies in the DAR, or the Gatlin Historical Society, or the Sisters. And you didn't have to accept that things had to be the way they were, like Lena."
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"Why shouldn't your curiosity about the world be rewarded?"
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"Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong - but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong."
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"For me, there is very little difference between magic and art. To me, the ultimate act of magic is to create something from nothing: It's like when the stage magician pulls the rabbit from the hat."
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"Democracy is a poor system, the only thing that can be said for it is that it's eight times as good as any other method."
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"They call you Medusa. One wrong look and your brain turns to stone."
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"I have offices all over the place and I avoid work everywhere. I don't like to write - I like to be finished."
Work,
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"I felt the sharp sting of emptiness and solitude that you feel so acutely and with such internal sorrow and wonder whenever music is performed well."
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"Seated by her side in the narrow cabin, pressing cold compresses to her forehead and holding her while she vomited, he felt profoundly happy...."
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"I have been unable to live an uncommitted or suspended life. I have not hesitated to declare my affiliation with an extremely unpopular cause."
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"One day enough work will have been done. Enough prayers will have been said. Enough confidence will have been formed. One day with effortless certainty your dreams will manifest into physical form proving dreams really can come true."
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"On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love."
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"Not thou alone, but all humanity doth in its progress fable emulate. Whence came thy rocket-ships and submarine if not from Nautilus, from Cavorite? Your trustiest companions since the cave, we apparitions guided mankind's tread, our planet, unseen counterpart to thine, as permanent, as ven'rable, as true. On dream's foundation matter's mudyards rest. Two sketching hands, each one the other draws: the fantasies thou've fashioned fashion thee."
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"The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads."
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"There's a time and place for everything, and I believe it's called 'fan fiction'."
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"I didn't feel sad or happy. I didn't feel proud or ashamed. I only felt that in spite of all the things I'd done wrong, in getting myself here, I'd done right."
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"Surrendering to God is not passive resignation, fatalism, or an excuse for laziness."
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"We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine."
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"That's life. Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you."
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"There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss."
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"Yet there be certain times in a young man's life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood."
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"Stairway to Hell or Yellow Brick Road? Why don't you give your Magic 8 Ball a shake and see if it's ready to play again."
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"I couldn't find my cup of tea.So probably, I've been simply taking a sip from everyone else's cup. May be it shouldn't matter as long as there is tea to drink. Or should it?"
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"Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could."
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"In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth."
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"What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?"
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"America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black."
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"There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering."
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"Status in itself is criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people."
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"For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think."
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"If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody."
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