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Quotes by Writer
"Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
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"I think the rising and falling popularity of areas like hard SF and far-future SF is, to a considerable extent, the same as any other fashion."
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"Luck is not as random as you think.Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it."
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"Wherever I was, I was happy. At peace. I knew that everyone I cared about was all right. I knew it. Time didn't mean anything, nothing had form but I was still me, you know? And I was warm and I was loved and I was finished. Complete. I don't understand about theology or dimensions, or any of it, really but I think I was in heaven. And now I'm not. I was torn out of there. Pulled out by my friends. Everything here is hard, and bright, and violent. Everything I feel, everything I touch this is hell. Just getting through the next moment, and the one after that knowing what I've lost..."
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"I want friends, not admirers. People who respect me for my character and my deeds, not my flattering smile. The circle around me would be much smaller, but what does that matter, as long as they're sincere?"
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"You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist."
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"Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning."
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"It was not long before I was struck with the idea that base ball was just the game for a national sport for Americans."
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"Andrea raised her hand. "This is the hand that slapped Aunt B."Maybe you should have it gold-plated."Here, you can touch it, since you're my best friend."
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"I lay down in the mother ash dirt among the crocuses and told her it was okay. That I'd surrendered. That since she died, everything had changed. Things she couldn't have imagined and wouldn't have guessed. My words came out low and steadfast. I was so sad it felt as if someone were choking me, and yet it seemed my whole life depended on my getting those words out. She would always be my mother, I told her, but I had to go. She wasn't there for me in that flowerbed anymore anyway, I explained. I'd put her somewhere else. The only place I could reach her. In me."
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"Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them."
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"It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper."
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"Don't bring me the stars from the sky, I'm planting sunshine in my backyard."
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"I concentrate on the southern African subcontinent."
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"A family is one of nature's solubles, it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater."
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"It's basically the same in all periods of societies. If you belong to the majority, you can avoid thinking about lots of troubling things.''And those troubling things are all you /can/ think about when you're one of the few.''That's about the size of it,' she said mournfully. 'But maybe, if you're in a situation like that, you learn to think for yourself.''Yes, but maybe what you end up thinking for yourself /about/ is all those troubling things."
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"One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you."
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"People always complain about their memories, never about their minds."
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"Nope,' he whispered, when I tried to tug it away. 'Mine now."
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"There's a widespread cultural barrenness across art and political culture. But there are some pockets of resistance on the extreme margins, like the techno-savvy protest movements, small press, the creator-owned comics, that seem to be getting some signs of hope for the future."
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"Don't be envious of the runner in the lane next to you, just focus on finishing your race."
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"Within forty minutes, the voice inside my head was screaming, WHAT HAVE I GOTTEN MYSELF INTO? I tried to ignore it, to hum as I hiked, though humming proved too difficult to do while also panting and moaning in agony and trying to remain hunched in that remotely upright position while also propelling myself forward when I felt like a building with legs."
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"Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor."
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"The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness."
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"The world still consists of two clearly divided groups: the English and the foreigners. One group consists of less than 50 million people; the other of 3,950 million. The latter group does not really count."
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"Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away."
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"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of."
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"The country he had left thirty years ago had been a realistic place. There were political realities there, then and now, that precluded blind faith, that discouraged one from thinking that everything, always, would work out fairly and equitably. But he had come to believe such things in the United States. Things had worked out. Difficulties had been overcome. He had worked hard and achieved success. The machinery of government functioned."
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"Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition."
Life,
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"Come see the cherry trees of a water constellationand the round key of the rapid universe,come touch the fire of instantaneous blue,come before its petals are consumed."
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"The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence."
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"Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route."
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"Sometimes I used to think that one day i should wake up, and all that had been would be over. forgotten, sunk, drowned. Nothing was sure - not even memory."
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"The fact is, it is selfish for a church to not want to grow. A church that says, 'We've got enough people, we've got a nice fellowship. Our church is just the right size. We just need to focus on the members we already have. That church is, in reality, actually saying, 'The rest of the world can go to hell. We don't care."
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"The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it."
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