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Quotes by Writer
"A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it."
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"To re-establish man at the heart of his destiny is, they claim, to repudiate all ethics. However, far from God's absence authorizing all license, the contrary is the case, because man is abandoned on the earth, because his acts are definitive, absolute engagements. He bears the responsibility for a world which is not the work of a strange power, but of himself, where his defeats are inscribed, & his victories as well."
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"Still, this was on the order of a minor miracle, running across someone to whom you can express your feeling so clearly, so completely. Most people go their entire lives without meeting a person like that. It would have been mistake to label this "love". It was more like total empathy."
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"I'd like to have a good long talk with you once you've calmed down. Please call me soon. Happy Birthday."
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"A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on."
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"With a book he was regardless of time..."
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"Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering."
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"Intellectuals that approach me, only serve to feeding my intellectualism. Imaginists that approach me, only serve to enhancing my Imaginism. It's impossible to feed my I, for I am the Greatest 'I AM."
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"Judge, criticize, object before you decide to believe something; but once you believe, you're but an idiot if you need to be scrupulous any more."
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"To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that."
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"One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he's socially inept - because everybody's been there - but rather his complete lack of embarrassment about it."
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"When you're in your twenties in a new city where no one's from here, we're all sort of orphans. The only people that you can count on our bunch of people that you work with and that you know. You're only as good as the reliability of that latticework."
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"It's time to start living the life you've imagined."
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"I should not mistake her calm probing for the absence of anger."
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"The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature."
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"Every cure for nostalgia is obsolete."
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"Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet."
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"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be."
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"A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper."
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"Keep your expectations high, Not because you are better than anyone else, but because you have experienced enough pain; to realise, you won't settle anymore."
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"Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of science fiction writers don't know what they're talking about."
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"Truth can be stated simply, but cannot be understood as such."
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"Capitalism is a social system where the health and security of a nation are compromised for corporate gain."
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"As much as I enjoy romance, it's commitment that I need the most. I need to know a love I can depend on, a love that says, 'I will be with you through it all. I love you. And I will love you even when you may not be all that lovable, for sometimes I'm not very lovable either. You can count on me - always."
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"If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel."
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"So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their conscience, and if they will not to punish them in their goods, liberties, or lives? this we hold in the negative."
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"Think of the ills from which you are exempt."
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"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one."
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"Whatever she is now she's better than she was," said Bedloe. "Being dead is better than being dull, being dead is better than not being aware."
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"Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience."
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"The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail."
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"All I ask is this: Do something. Try something. Speaking out, showing up, writing a letter, a check, a strongly worded e-mail. Pick a cause " there are few unworthy ones. And nudge yourself past the brink of tacit support to action. Once a month, once a year, or just once...Even just learning enough about a subject so you can speak against an opponent eloquently makes you an unusual personage. Start with that. Any one of you would have cried out, would have intervened, had you been in that crowd in Bashiqa. Well thanks to digital technology, you're all in it now."
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"If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted."
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"Very few Americans will directly proclaim that they are in favor of black people being left to the streets. But a very large number of Americans will do all they can to preserve the Dream. The point of this language of 'intention and 'personal responsibility is broad exoneration. People were enslaved. We meant well. We tried out best. 'Good intention is a hall pass through history, a sleeping pill that ensures the Dream."
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"Quite casually I wander into my plot, poke around with my characters for a while, then amble off, leaving no moral proved and no reader improved."
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"True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power."
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