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Quotes by Writer
"To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it."
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"I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality."
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"What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice."
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"The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
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"Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice."
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"No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart."
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"He came up flailing and sputtering and began to thrash his way toward the line of willows that marked the submerged creek bank. He could not swim, but how would you drown him? His wrath seemed to buoy him up. Some halt in the way of things seems to work here. See him. You could say that he's sustained by his fellow men, like you. Has peopled the shore with them calling to him. A race that gives suck to the maimed and the crazed, that wants their wrong blood in its history and will have it. But they want this man's life. He has heard them in the night seeking him with lanterns and cries of execration. How then is he borne up? Or rather, why will not these waters take him?"
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"Gratitude is more of a compliment to yourself than someone else."
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"I want to see thirstIn the syllables,Tough fireIn the sound;Feel through the darkFor the scream."
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"That's how I do this life sometimes by making the ordinary just like magic and just like a card trick and just like a mirror and just like the disappearing. Every Indian learns how to be a magician and learns how to misdirect attention and the dark hand is always quicker than the white eye and no matter how close you get to my heart you will never find out my secrets and I'll never tell you and I'll never show you the same trick twice. I'm traveling heavy with illusions."
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"The most important single thing we had to pound into ourselves is that we were not important, we musn't be pedants; we were not to feel superior to anyone else in the world. We're nothing more than dust jackets for books, of no significance otherwise."
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"Reason is the first victim of strong emotion," Scytale murmured."
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"Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast."
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"Of Course you can attract someone by Beautiful body ,but if you don't have beautiful soul than they will be with you only until they enjoy your body in Bed."
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"Pretentiousness repels but authenticity attracts, and vulnerability is the pathway to intimacy."
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"I was with you at the beginning of your journey. It is right that I should follow you to its end."
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"I was trying to make the web more civil. I was trying to make it more elegant. I got rid of anonymity. I combined a thousand disparate elements into one unified system. But I didn't picture a world where Circle membership was mandatory, where all government and all life was channeled through one network."
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"There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority."
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"Do you love me?What?Do you?I love you. I don't know if I trust you.Maybe you shouldn't do either.Maybe I'm the one who should decide!"
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"When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we'd be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing."
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"When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly. But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder who, after all, you are."
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"Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives."
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"It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness."
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"If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will."
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"She was wishing that whatever stage of her life she was in now could be got through quickly, for it was seeing to her interminable. If life had to be looked at in terms of high moments. or peaks, then nothing had 'happened' to her for a long time; snd she could look forward to nothing much but a dwindling away from full household activity into getting old."
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"There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories."
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"The things men did or felt they had to do."
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"The facts of religion were convincing only to those who were already convinced."
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"Man is weak. Purpose makes him strong."
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"No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches."
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