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Quotes by Writer
"We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it."
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"It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur."
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"Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant."
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"My work is to give you what I know of my own particular path while allowing you to walk your own."
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"It was a broken world, I knew then, that would allow a boy such as me to bury a boy such as William K."
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"If people don't sit at Chaplin's feet, he goes out and stands where they are sitting."
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"To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees."
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"Suddenly he knew all the things he should have said."
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"Best of stories are created at Airports, Dinner Tables and Showers!"
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"You cannot fix, nor are you responsible for another persons low self esteem."
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"There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living."
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"She(Joan of Arc) put her dreams and her sentiment into her aims, where they ought to be; she put her practicality into her practice. In modern Imperial wars, the case is reversed. Our dreams, our aims are always, we insist, quite practical. It is our practice that is dreamy."
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"I'm not a particularly dark individual. I have my moments, it's true, but I do have a sense of humor."
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"Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you."
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"Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago."
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"I wondered quickly if I'd give my life so that a dragon could live. If someone offered me that deal, your life for the existence of dragons.I thought maybe yes, maybe no."
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"Prayer may not change our outer circumstances but inwardly it can change everything."
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"In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit."
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"This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes means doing fairly involved calculations."
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"People interested in change and personal development need larger and larger environments in which to live. Their views expand. Their perspectives broaden. Their interests change. They seek bigger challenges. And they need people in their lives who will make room for their growth."
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"Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with."
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"The world is no longer white, black, yellow and brown. Through love, tribes have been intermixing colors to reveal a new rainbow world. And as more time passes, this racial and cultural blending will make it harder for humans to side with one race, nation or religion over another."
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"The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself."
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"People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring."
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"Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing."
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"How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression."
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"Sometimes it's about standing in your power."
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"In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today."
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"The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission."
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"In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up."
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"It wasn't about how she looked, which was pretty, even though she was always wearing the wrong clothes and those beat-up sneakers. It wasn't about what she said in class - usually something no one else would've thought of, and if they had, something they wouldn't have dared to say. It wasn't that she was different from all the other girls at Jackson. That was obvious. It was that she made me realize how much I was just like the rest of them, even if I wanted to pretend I wasn't."
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"Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver."
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"Its limitations are those of the physical universe: it won't let you play with some really wild ideas that aren't possible, but are fun to speculate about."
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"Here we find the roots of American wealth and democracy-in the for-profit destruction of the most important asset available to any people, the family. The destruction was not incidental to America's rise; it facilitated that rise. By erecting a slave society, America created the economic foundation for its great experiment in democracy."
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