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Quotes by Writer
"What was the point of being holed up with someone who didn't believe in me when I had people out there who did?"
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"Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best."
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"As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet."
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"They're after one world religion and one world government. That's why they've attacked the Catholic Church so strongly, to ultimately take control over it by their doctrine."
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"Perhaps, it is better to be decided than undecided. But it is certainly the best to stay decidedly undecided."
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"To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death."
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"A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns."
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"I watched the moon alone, unable to share his cold beauty with anyone."
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"What if there was something essentially wrong with Claude Sylvanshine that wasn't wrong with other people? What if he was simple ill-suited, the way some people are born without limbs or certain organs? The neurology of failure. What if he was simply born and destined to live in the shadow of Total Fear and Despair, and all his so-called activities were pathetic attempts to distract him from the inevitable?"
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"When my friends lack an eye I look at them in profile."
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"Perfectionists talk about first love. Realists talk about true love. Optimists talk just about love."
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"I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination."
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"Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world."
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"Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed."
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"One always expects something else."
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"An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason."
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"When you read a comic book, there's a space between what's happening on the panel and what you have to literally see in your mind. That's not true of movies, where you see everything."
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"Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science."
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"I'm not a parent myself, but I think the best solution at this point is to slap that child across the face. It won't stop crying, but at least now it'll be doing it for a good reason."
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"When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore."
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"We really have to be willing to find out who we are instead of rebelling for the equal rights that we've been denied, that we do deserve."
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"TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call it a medium because nothing's well done."
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"Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all."
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"Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was."
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"Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions."
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"Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance."
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"You know it's hard to hear what a bearded man is saying. He can't speak above a whisker."
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"A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck."
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"If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air."
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"I don't think the players play with the same desire they once did."
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"Critics and academics have been trying for forty years to bury the greatest work of imaginative fiction in English. They ignore it, they condescend to it, they stand in large groups with their backs to it - because they're afraid of it. They're afraid of dragons. They have Smaugophobia. "Oh those awful Orcs," they bleat, flocking after Edmund Wilson. They know if they acknowledge Tolkien they'll have to admit that fantasy can be literature, and that therefore they'll have to redefine what literature is. And they're too damned lazy to do it."
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"No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness."
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