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Quotes by Writer
"The imagination is truly the enemy of bigotry and dogma."
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"Pantaloons were often worn tight as paint and were not a great deal less revealing, particularly as they were worn without underwear. . . . Jackets were tailored with tails in the back, but were cut away in front so that they perfectly framed the groin. It was the first time in history that men's apparel was consciously designed to be more sexy than women's."
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"When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing."
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"I was not sorry for loving Charleston or for leaving it. Geography had made me who I was."
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"We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that intellect apparently wasn't the most important thing...not ideas, but the system; not freedom, but drill. We had joined up with enthusiasm and with good will; but they did everything to knock that out of us."
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"A room full of fags gives me the horrors. They jerk around like puppets on invisible strings, galvanized into hideous activity that is the negation of everything living and spontaneous. The live human being has moved out of these bodies long ago. But something moved in when the original tenant moved out."
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"There had never been any more between us thanchance had brought. But perhaps that makes a greater indebtednessand binds closer than much else."
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"Hey, you know that thing Dostoyevesky wrote on gambling? It's like that. When you're surrounded by endless possibilities, one of the hardest things you can do is pass them up."
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"How many pages will it take to tell your story?"
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"Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold."
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"Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic."
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"The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent."
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"Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty."
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"The future of that ancient chamber remains in considerable doubt."
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"In virtually every industry the most trusted brand is also the most profitable. Frequency led to awareness, awareness to familiarity, and familiarity to trust. And trust, almost without exception, leads to profit."
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"Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of."
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"Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values."
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"I have an interest in spirituality, and it opens up so many different areas of Indian life."
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"When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment."
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"Government today is growing too strong to be safe. There are no longer any citizens in the world there are only subjects. They work day in and day out for their masters they are bound to die for their masters at call. Out of this working and dying they tend to get less and less."
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"I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen."
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"First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work."
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"There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving."
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"Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light."
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"Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little."
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"Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening."
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"Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil."
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"A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles."
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"Many Americans don't have an understanding of the freedoms they regularly enjoy."
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"My Dreams are not in my eyesMy Eyes are on my Dreams."
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"People have come to the erroneous conclusion that if they're not willing to start something separate, world-changing, and risky, they have no business starting anything. Somehow, we've fooled ourselves into believing that the project has to have a name, a building, and a stock ticker symbol to matter."
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"The other classes of which society was composed were, first, freemen, owners of small portions of land, independent, though they sometimes voluntarily became the vassals of their more opulent neighbors, whose power was necessary for their protection."
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"The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style."
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"Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure:1. Acceptance2. Understanding3. AppreciationRemove any one of the three and the triangle falls apart.Which, by the way, is something highly inadvisable. Think about it - do you really want to live in a world of only two dimensions?So, for the love of a triangle, please keep love whole."
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