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Quotes by Writer
"Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed."
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"Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air."
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"Lincoln's removal from New Salem to Springfield and his entrance into a law partnership with Major John T. Stuart begin a distinctively new period in his career."
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"I had no intention of pursuing either the characters or the setting further."
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"Wake the power within thee slumbering, trim the plot that's in thy keeping, thou wilt bless the task when reaping sweet labour's prize."
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"My sister is running away to get lost, but I am running away because I want to find something. And my parents love me so much that they want to help me. Yeah, Dad is a drunk and Mom is an ex-drunk, but they don't want their kids to be drunks."
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"I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are."
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"But it is true that sometimes an enveloping darkness aids one to clearer vision; as in a panorama building, for example, where the obscurity about the entrance prepares one better for the climax, and gives the scene depicted a more real and vivid appearance."
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"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive."
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"Don't lower your standards to keep anyone, if they're not making you happy, it's time to find someone who does."
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"Yousef had been lighthearted during his questions, but there was something very serious and sad under his smile, and Alan knew what it was. It was the knowledge that there would be no fighting, and there would be no struggle, no stand taken, and that the two of them, because they were not lacking materially, because despite injustices in their countries they were the recipients of preposterous bounty, would likely do nothing. They were content, they had won. The fighting would be done by others, elsewhere."
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"He learned through the way that my father and I felt about his songs, his country songs, that they were great songs. And then he went out and sang them for the audiences that we found, and he found a tremendous reaction to that."
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"Anything which is physically possible can be made financially possible, if the people of a state desire it."
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"The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision."
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"Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating."
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"For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness."
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"Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to."
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"It took me years to stop feeling the guilt she made sure I kept feeling about what happened with him. He is a sick person that molests children, but I felt so bad about it for so long. I couldn't talk to a single person about any of this. No one. And she made me feel so bad about it all that I felt I shouldn't talk about it, even if there was someone. I felt ashamed and thought I was an awful person. Sometimes I still do. My mother abandoned me in the worst ways possible."
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"It is quite time that our children were taught a little more about their country, for shame's sake."
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"It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars."
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"Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision."
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"You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you."
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"It is said that many children who live in the central provinces, away from the ocean, have a great longing to see it. I who had never been away from the monotonous country surrounding us looked forward eagerly to seeing the mountains."
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