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Quotes by Writer
"Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve."
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"You might consider how to escape from a cage must surely require, foremost, awareness of the fact of the cage."
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"In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body."
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"It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal a peculiar poetry."
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"I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing."
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"Gratitude is an overflow of the pleasure filling your soul."
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"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."
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"There isn't a dude outside my dad who had greater influence on my life."
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"The longer you silence a violin, the harder it is for it to find its true voice again."
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"It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise."
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"He was an awkward mixture of strong moral impulse and restless aesthetic curiosity, and yet he would have made a most ineffective reformer and a very indifferent artist. It seemed to him that the glow of happiness must be found either in action, of some immensely solid kind, on behalf of an idea, or in producing a masterpiece in one of the arts."
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"I don't take much stock of detectives in novels - chaps that do things and never let you see how they do them. That's just inspiration: not business."
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"The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day."
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"So I draw because I feel like it might be my only real chance to escape the reservation."
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"Ugly truths are the biggest source of indigestion in humans."
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"It's so free to know that I do not have to compensate or make excuses for being treated poorly in relationships. I can simply move forward knowing I deserve better."
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"I cannot quit your love without dying."
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"Your memory has always been given to opportunistic revision."
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"Let women be provided with living strength of their own."
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"Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact."
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"My enemies don't scared me .. but the people who say I love you."
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"I know at least what I am,' he simply went on; 'the other side of the medal's clear enough. I've not been edifying--I believe I'm thought in a hundred quarters to have been barely decent. I've followed strange paths and worshipped strange gods; it must have come to you again and again--in fact you've admitted to me as much--that I was leading, at any time these thirty years, a selfish frivolous scandalous life. And you see what it has made of me."
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"A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm."
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"Proper words in proper places make the true definition of a style."
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"One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word."
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"Death, mademoiselle, unfortunately creates a prejudice. A prejudice in favour of the deceased. I heard what you said just now to my friend Hastings. 'A nice bright girl with no men friends.' You said that in mockery of the newspapers. And it is very true-when a young girl is dead, that is the kind of thing that is said. She was bright. She was happy. She was sweet-tempered. She had not a care in the world. She had no undesirable acquaintances. There is a great charity always to the dead. Do you know what I should like this minute? I should like to find someone who knew Elizabeth Barnard and who does not know she is dead! Then, perhaps, I should hear what is useful to me-the truth."
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"It was the incommunicable scent of this country, its intangible essence, that she had brought along with her to France."
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"We all struggle. It's just that some of us struggle out loud and some of us don't."
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"In fiction, you have a rough idea what's coming up next - sometimes you even make a little outline - but in fact you don't know. Each day is a whole new - and for me, a very invigorating - experience."
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