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Quotes by Writer
"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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"I was a WASP kid going to a high school that was 99 percent Jewish and I wanted attention and I wanted to make a spectacle of myself because I couldn't stand to be ignored."
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"The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish."
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"I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it."
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"I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble."
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"What is perfectly true is perfectly witty."
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"I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!"
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"Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred."
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"Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society."
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"Then we change our possy and lie down again to play cards. We know how to do that: to play cards, to swear, and to fight. Not much for twenty years; - and yet too much for twenty years."
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"I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people. I find the books upholding certain values that I think are important, such as life is immensely valuable and this world is an extraordinarily beautiful place. We should do what we can to increase the amount of wisdom in the world."
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"Girl lithe and tawny, the sun that formsthe fruits, that plumps the grains, that curls seaweedsfilled your body with joy, and your luminous eyesand your mouth that has the smile of the water.A black yearning sun is braided into the strandsof your black mane, when you stretch your arms.You play with the sun as with a little brookand it leaves two dark pools in your eyes."
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"They wanted to help me with my pain."
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"Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept?"
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"This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success."
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"I ride horseback - arthritic knees permitting - or listen to opera. Sometimes I cook. I used to do needlework, but it's hard on my hands now, so I only do it occasionally, but I like it. And, of course, I read."
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"You also know you're surrendered when you don't react to criticism and rush to defend yourself. Surrendered hearts show up best in relationships. You don't edge others out, you don't demand your rights, and you aren't self - serving when you're surrendered."
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"My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago."
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"If she's not alright, I'm going to rip out his heart and eat it.' I nodded. 'You really shouldn't eat raw meat,' Chubs said."
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"Noting the lack of crime or security in the Netherlands, the author asked a native who guarded a national landmark. He got the replay, "We all do."
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"For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies."
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"Work, love, courage and hope,Make me good and help me cope!"
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"When you've nothing to live for, you get to thinking inside your head."
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"To your friends house the trip is never long."
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"It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living."
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"I couldn't look at her. I'd been jealous and hurt, and I had dragged Liv into the middle of my own broken mess of a life. All because I thought Lena didn't love me anymore. But I was stupid, and I was wrong. Lena loved me so much, she was willing to risk everything to save me. I had given up on Lena, after she had refused to give up on me. I owed her my life. It was as simple as that."
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"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do."
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"The excitement that you were feeling about a special, unique path for yourself as a woman is all part of your identification with and attachment to being female. And that's ultimately all ego."
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"My friends, if we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business. Our words will always be sincere, our embraces will be tight. We will never wallow in the agony of 'I could have, I should have.' We can sleep in a storm. "And when it's time, our good-byes will be complete."
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"Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade."
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"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong."
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"You have to learn where your weaknesses end and your strengths starts or you will spend your life focusing on all that falls apart."
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"A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on."
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"When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue."
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"No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating."
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