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Quotes by Writer
"They leave Omelas, they walk ahead into the darkness, and they do not come back. The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible that it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas."
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"Jealousy is like a cactus its respond and reaction is thorny."
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"To the Bullock RoserootWhat's the thought you thinkall your life long?It must be a great one,a solemn one, to make you gazethrough the world at it,all your life long.When you have to look aside from ityour eyes roll, you bellowin anger, anxiousto return to it, steadilyto gaze at it, think itall your life long."
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"To make the world. To make it again and again. To make it in the very maelstrom of its undoing."
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"Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles."
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"And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world."
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"A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader."
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"We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us."
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"That is the remarkable thing about drinking: it brings people together so quickly, but between night and morning it sets an interval again of years."
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"The First Mobile, if one is sent, must be warned that unless he is very self-assured, or senile, his pride will suffer. A man wants his virility regarded, a woman wants her femininity appreciated, however indirect and subtle the indications of regard and appreciation. On Winter they will not exist. One is respected and judged only as a human being. It is an appalling experience."
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"One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism."
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"So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine."
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"I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads."
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"Why should i have fake smile on my face ,If my heart and soul suffering in unrest. it's not my duty to entertain you But its my responsibility to be Honest and Original."
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"Oh , You Want To Be My World , What Have You Done To Gain My Heart . It's a Fantasy, Only In Your Mind."
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"I do not write feelings, emotions i do not writeAfter that day on love anything i do not writeMy silence scream somewhere inside me These are my Bloody wounds on paper,words i do not write."
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"Politics is the only art whose artists regularly disown their masterpieces."
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"In certain areas where the media are still controlled, the changes have come to a halt, which is a very frustrating situation. I would like the changes to take place throughout China."
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"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next."
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"People thank God when God no longer sits on the throne. The angels descend down to deliver miracles because they are trying to maintain the face of God. In the end, you must place your hopes and prayers with the angels. It has become quite sad in Heaven without its puppet master."
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"God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends. This may not be true, but it sounds good-and is no sillier than any other theology."
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"If i start hate her, just because of this that she betrayed me ,Then i will betray to my Love."
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"Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for."
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"Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape."
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"Probably one or two moments in your whole life you will hear a dark whispering spirit, a voice coming from the center of things. It will have blades for lips and will not stop until it speaks the one secret thing at the heart of it all. Kneeling on the floor, unable to stop shuddering, I heard it plainly. It said, You are unlovable..."
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"We immigrants can sometimes sound a little hysterical about this because we come from places that have tried this and we know where it leads. Anybody who's lived in countries with socialized health care knows that it becomes the dominant political issue."
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"Writing things was important, wasn't it? Nakata asked.'Yes, it was. The process of writing was important. Even though the finished product is completely meaningless."
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"It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people."
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"We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it."
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"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
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"After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'"
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"Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed."
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"Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore."
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"Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business."
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"For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It's distressing, but there you are."
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"August: You know, somethings don't matter that much...like the color of a house...But lifting a person's heart--now that matters. The whole problem with people--'Lily: They don't know what matters and what doesn't...August:...They know what matters, but they don't choose it...The hardest thing on earth is to choose what matters."
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