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Quotes by Writer
"The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek."
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"The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone."
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"Majority rule gives the ruthless strong man plenty of elbow room to oppress his fellows."
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"I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time."
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"The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me."
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"If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility."
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"I once heard a tale of a man who split himself in two.The one part never changed at all; the other grew and grew.The changeless part was always true, The growing part was always new,And I wondered, when the tale was through, Which part was me, and which was you."
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"She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent."
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"When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home."
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"We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either."
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"Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you."
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"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent."
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"The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, the effect of which is like having your brains smashed out with a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick."
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"Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one's painful self through the world.But being, being is happiness. Being: Becoming a fountain, a fountain on which the universe falls like warm rain."
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"By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now, consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products."
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"One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time."
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"Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as writer."
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"Don't you know, you idiot, that that is what every fool of a woman says about her child?Miss Bulstrode's thoughts."
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"Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether."
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"Revolution and youth are closely allied. What can a revolution promise to adults? To some it brings disgrace, to others favor. But even that favor is questionable, for it affects only the worse half of life, and in addition to advantages it also entails uncertainty, exhausting activity and upheaval of settled habits.Youth is substantially better off: it is not burdened by guilt, and the revolution can accept young people in toto. The uncertainty of revolutionary times is an advantage for youth, because it is the world of the fathers that is challenged. How exciting to enter into the age of maturity over the shattered ramparts of the adult world!"
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"He had come to find out that reality was more than a dream, much more than a dream!"
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"There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind."
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"He knew very well that his memory detested him, that it did nothing but slander him; therefore he tried not to believe it and to be more lenient toward his own life. But that didn't help: he took no pleasure in looking back, and he did it as seldom as possible."
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"Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking."
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"The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families."
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