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Quotes by Writer
"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
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"Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends."
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"If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength."
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"In an infinite Universe anything can happen," said Ford, "Even survival. Strange but true."
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"That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves."
27
"Between Barton and Delaford, there was that constant communication which strong family affection would naturally dictate;-and among the merits and the happiness of Elinor and Marianne, let it not be ranked as the least considerable, that though sisters, and living almost within sight of each other, they could live without disagreement between themselves, or producing coolness between their husbands."
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"An author must gorge himself on ten thousand images to select the magical one that can define a piece of the world in a way one has never considered before."
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"He looked around. The room, a few suitcases, some belongings, a handful of well-read books- a man needed few things to live. And it was good not to get used to many things when life was unsettled. Again and again one had to abandon them or they were taken away. One should be ready to leave every day. That was the reason he had lived alone- when one was on the move one should not have anything that could bind one. Nothing that could stir the heart. The adventure- but nothing more."
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"I've never had anyone's approval, so I've learned to live without it."
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"Like any girl, she still felt the echoes from earlier eras of repression. She'd been raised by a mother who'd fought hard to get a wage she deserved, to have access to education when she lacked every advantage, to travel on her own terms. The idea she was being asked-that she was expected to simply play along-made the blood throb in her veins. She was already in the damn stays. Wasn't the enough?"
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"Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth."
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"Once he became a series character, I made the conscious choice that he would never act like a series character, never wink at the reader, never pull his punches. Better for him, better for me."
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"Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another."
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"Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too."
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"I had thought that I must mirror the outside world, create a carbon copy of white claims to civilization. It was beginning to occur to me to question the logic of the claim itself... I was was only beginning to learn to be wary of my own humanity, of my own hurt and anger - I didn't yet realize that the boot on your neck is just as likely to make you delusional as it is to ennoble."
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"I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children; but just because the happy days were so habitual to me they made no impression upon my mind, and I can no longer recall them."
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"Business or profession?''I guess you'd call me a writer.'No profession,' said the police car, as if talking to itself. The light held him fixed, like a museum specimen, needle thrust through chest."
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"Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net."
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"A person's destiny often ends before his death."
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"It was as if life was one great big impersonal piece of machinery."
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"Shields were generally made of wood, covered with leather, or some similar substance. To secure them, in some sort, from being cut through by the sword, they were surrounded with a hoop of metal."
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"The world is full of stories, but the stories are all one."
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"I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for contradictions."
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"The end. But I'm telling you now, if either of you breathe a word -one goddamn word- about Cate, I will come down on you so hard, they'll be naming hurricanes after me for a fucking century."
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"I live for those who love me, for those who know me true, for the heaven so blue above me, and the good that I can do."
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"Standing in the spotlight, surrounded by all my selves, each of them naked and vulnerable before your lens, I want to be split open and reminded of shame. I know that sounds selfish, but I'm allowed to be selfish 'cause we're talking about photography. Do you honestly believe I don't see it for what it actually is: Exploitative? Exploitation is the nature of the beast, whatever the hell that means."
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"When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all."
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"As I acknowledge the boundaries within myself, I am given plenty of opportunities to reinforce them."
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"I've always admired people who give accurate directions, and the tribe is small."
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"Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid."
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"To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting."
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"The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as God and gods."
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