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Quotes by Writer
"Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments."
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"Life feels good if you don't know what it is."
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"The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere."
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"We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works."
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"I'd love to thwart the Census form, but I want a constitutional basis for doing it - and here's the tricky thing. I think even constitutional purists would tell you that just because something isn't in the Constitution does not mean the government cannot do it."
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"Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey.At other times, it is allowing another to take yours."
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"Unlike a fountain that circulates the same water in an enclosed, perpetually recycling system, a human being circulates thoughts in an unlimited reservoir of self.Don't limit yourself to being a mere fountain when you contain an ocean."
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"I had the strangest feeling-like I had lost something without ever really having it in the first place-that i wasn't what I once was, and wasn't at all what I was meant to be."
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"Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."
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"Two sad eyes and one skanky smile, I practically pulse with the promise of promiscuity. I'm easy to catch, but too slippery to hold onto. Men love a challenge if the prize is guaranteed. I know how to start a fight while deepthroating a white flag."
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"Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always."
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"Youth is terrible: it is a stage trod by children in buskins and a variety of costumes mouthing speeches they've memorized and fanatically believe but only half understand. And history is terrible because it so often ends up a playground for the immature; a playground for the young Nero, a playground for the young Bonaparte, a playground for the easily roused mobs of children whose simulated passions and simplistic poses suddenly metamorphose into a catastrophically real reality."
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"If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore."
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"Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long."
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"I wonder if that's the perennial story of writers: you find the true light, you lose the true light, you find it again. And maybe again."
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"The adventure is which I have shared so passionately is not over--this adventure with its doubt, failure, the dreariness of no progress, then a glimpse of light, a hope, a hypothesis confirmed; and then after weeks and months of anxious perseverance, the intoxication of success."
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"You can read minds, and you didn't tell me? Link stared at me like he just found out I was the Silver Surfer. He rubbed his head nervously. 'Hey, man, all that stuff about Lena? I was yankin' your chain. He looked away. 'Are you doin' it now? You're doin' it, aren't you? Dude, get out of my head. He backed away from me and into the bookshelf.'I can't read your mind, you idiot."
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"The only satisfactory thing about death is that our knowledge about it is unsatisfactory."
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"A beautiful girlfriend is worth two more."
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"Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests."
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"What if I were to tell you the game's been rigged, that I was destined to win from the very beginning? To be clear: Winning is subjective. For the record: I win by losing, by avoiding the confusion of possibility, the sheer terror of potential. To make a long story short: I win when I lose and I lose by running, by pushing you away."
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"I was overlooking the heights and I felt somewhere in between!"
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"My son will wear the title well, the Duke thought, and realized with a sudden chill that this was another death thought."
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"To make the most of your life, you must keep the vision of eternity continually in your mind and the value of it in your heart."
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"Max had to think about these new developments. He hadn't liked getting hit by a rock--his stomach still ached from then rock Judith had thrown--but then again, when his team had used rocks on Alexander, it had caused him to surrender. Now the Bad Guys only had three soldiers left, which would make victory for Max's team more likely. So now it made perfect sense. He was wrong to ban rocks, or even animals. The key was to use all the weapons at one's disposal, but to just make sure you won when you used them."
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"The ability to "fantasize" is the ability to survive. It's wonderful to speak about this subject because there have been so many wrong-headed people dealing with it.... The so-called realists are trying to drive us insane, and I refuse to be driven insane.... We survive by fantasizing. Take that away from us and the whole damned human race goes down the drain."
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"Miss Vida' Liam said 'has anyone never told you that you are positively the whipped cream on the sundae of life?'She glared at him.'Anyone ever told you your head is shaped like a pencil?'That is physically impossible,' Chubs groused.'He'd be__'Actually Liam began, 'Cole once did try to__ What?'Oh,I'm sorry,' Chubs said, 'apparently the middle of my sentence interrupted the beginning of yours. Do continue."
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"In fact it was altogether an odd dog, of uncertain breed, or breeds. It was large and black, but its hair was tufty, its body scrawny and clumsy, and its manner edgy, anxious, verging on the completely neurotic. Whenever it came to a halt for a moment or so, the business of starting up again often seemed to cause it trouble, as if it had difficulty in remembering where it had left each of its legs."
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"He believes in romance. He isn't merely going through the mechanical movements of a man in an exciting situation. He is, vitally and positively squeezing the last drop of delight from living the best life he knows in the best way he can."
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"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
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