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Quotes by Writer
"I'm very interested in my new kitchen equipment shop. I've started it with two friends."
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"If you ask 20 different readers why they read, they will all be right."
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"Look at him now, poor fellow. That's what a dose of reality does for you...Never touch the stuff myself, you understand. Find it gets in the way of the hallucinations."
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"Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people."
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"It's all a question of imagination. Our responsibility begins with the power to imagine."
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"It's the great surprise of my life that I ended up loving [my father] so much."
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"To wit, existence is communication and communication is existence."
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"She was wearing a purple T-shirt, with a skinny black dress over it that made you remember how much of a girl she was, and trashed black boots that made you forget."
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"A mannequin? An unfeeling heartless bitch who feeds on others' misery and is physically incapable of crying, unless it's tears of blood?"
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"If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation."
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"Few people understood the exceptional role the civil rights movement had on the white boys and girls of the South. Bill Clinton would never have become who he was without the shining example of Martin Luther King. The same is true of Jimmy Carter and Fritz Hollings and Richard and Joe Riley. Imagine this: you're a little white kid and you watch firehoses turned on people who don't seem to be hurting anyone, and fierce dogs being tuned on young men who carry signs about freedom. We white kids grew up watching movies and TV and guess what we had learned to do? We had learned to tell the good guys from the bad guys."
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"Too much time will do that to you. Blur the edges between your memories and your imagination until everything feels like something you saw in a movie instead of your life."
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"I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I'm going to write it in German to see if anyone notices."
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"Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted."
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"Every problem has a gift for you in its hands (Richard Bach). And if not every problem, then just about every one. Even spectacular sunsets are not possible without cloudy skies. Troubles bring a gift for those who choose to look. And since I can't avoid my problems, why waste them? I should look for the gift. My life will be far, far richer for finding it."
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"Hayt felt suddenly that he existed in a dream controlled by some other mind, and that he might momentarily forget this to become lost in the convolutions of that mind."
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"Measured against eternity, our time on earth is just a blink of an eye."
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"Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it."
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"What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good thing, but one musn't make a virtue of it, or a profession...Insofar as I love life, I love [my country], but that sort of love does not have a boundary-line of hate. And beyond that, I am ignorant, I hope."
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"When you are in love, it means that the person you love is of great personal, selfish importance to you and to your life."
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"Trouble with a long journey like this,' continued the Captain, 'is that you end up just talking to yourself a lot, which gets terribly boring because half the time you know what you're going to say next."
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"The older we get, the swifter time seems to pass and the quicker memories seem to fade."
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"Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception."
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"Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever."
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"It takes discipline to turn illusion into reality."
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"I never did anything in life to anyone's imagination."
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"Don't be afraid to talk because in the long run, you will be afraid that you were too silent."
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"Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs."
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"You decide. You be the judge. It says You are welcome regardless of severity. Severity is in the eye of the sufferer, it says. Pain is pain."
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"I realized there was something I didn't quite like in myself that I didn't want to hear about."
Want,
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"In fact,' said Poirot, 'she stabbed him in the dark, not realising that he was dead already, but somehow deduced that he had a watch in his pyjama pocket, took it out, put back the hands blindly and gave it the requisite dent."
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"If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner."
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"At the end of hours of train-dreaming, we may feel we have been returned to ourselves - that is, brought back into contact with emotions and ideas of importance to us. It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not; the domestice setting keeps us tethered to the person we are in ordinary life, but who may not be who we essentially are."
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