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Quotes by Writer
"Who do you spend time with? Criticizers or encouragers? Surround yourself with those who believe in you. Your life is too important for anything less."
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"If only they would not look at one so-What great misery can be in two such small spots, no bigger than a man's thumb-in their eyes!"
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"One of the biggest mistakes that people make when they think about memes is they try to extend on the analogy with genes. That's not how it works. It works by realizing the concept of a replicator."
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"The sky didn't wonder where it was."
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"Real people are places to me as much as persons: I want to see them, as I want to see the places I am fond of, in all weathers and at all times of the year."
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"Here I came to the very edge where nothing at all needs saying, everything is absorbed through weather and the sea, and the moon swam back, its rays all silvered, and time and again the darkness would be broken by the crash of a wave, and every day on the balcony of the sea, wings open, fire is born, and everything is blue again like morning."
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"Sarah shifted on the bench. I worried she was winding up to say something, that Sky would start humming now, that the fright spring-coiled inside me would break loose. Then I remembered the widow dress I was wearing. I made a sound with my lips like I was trying to give him an answer, but choking on the words, seized by my grief, and I didn't have to pretend that much. I felt sorrow for my life, for what I'd lived and seen and known, for what was lost to me, and the weeping turned real."
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"Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight."
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"Link says if a girl says not to get her a birthday present that means get me a birthday present and make sure it's jewelry."
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"There, did you think to kill me? There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea.Ideas are bulletproof. Farewell."
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"Love: the great connector. Stay Connected."
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"Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out."
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"The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are."
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"All we really want is for no one to have a boring life, to be impressive, so we can be impressed. ~ on the friends we choose."
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"Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was."
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"Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves."
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"I was a terrible believer in things,but I was also a terrible nonbeliever in things. I was as searching as I was skeptical. I didn't know where to put my faith,or if there was such a place,or even what the word faith meant, in all of it's complexity. Everything seemed to be possibly potent and possibly fake."
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"There was always a screen behind which one could hide- a superior who in turn had his superior- orders, instructions, duties, commands- and finally the many-headed monster, morale, necessity, hard reality, responsibility, or whatever it was called- there was always a screen behind which to evade the simple law of humanity."
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"In The States I would have no edge, no advantage at all."
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"This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible."
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"Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out."
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"We will make ourselves comfortable and sleep, and eat as much as we can stuff into our bellies, and drink and smoke so that hours are not wasted. Life is short."
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"I show up for my fellow man by sharing my inner wealth. I generously give out compassion and acceptance wherever I go."
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"The cliché is true: People don't care what we know until they know we care."
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"This is one of those stories where the feeling of the moment stands in for visual details."
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"Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of man in strong health as color to his cheek and wherever there is habitual gloom there must be either bad air unwholesome food improperly severe labor or erring habits of life."
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"The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived."
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"There's no better mirror than a friend's eye."
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"Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear."
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"You must never throw away things that are worth good money."
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"Vertigo is something else than the fear of falling. It is the voice of emptiness below us which temps and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defense ourselves."
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"One lost easiest what one held in one's arms- never what one left."
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"To no man does the earth mean so much as to the soldier. When he presses himself down upon her long and powerfully, when he buries his face and his limbs deep in her from the fear of death by shell-fire, then she is his only friend, his brother, his mother; he stifles his terror and his cries in her silence and her security; she shelters him and releases him for ten seconds to live, to run, ten seconds of life; receives him again and again and often forever."
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"And the open road rolled out in front of us."
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