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Quotes by Writer
"I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights."
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"How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!"
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"To-night I am going to take a party to the headquarters of the fire department, where I have a cinch on the captain, a very nice fellow, who is unusually grateful for something I wrote about him and his men. They are going to do the Still Alarm act for me."
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"Valkyrie walked to the back door, which hadn't been closed properly, shut it and locked it. There was now a baby in the house, after all. She couldn't take the chance that a wild animal might wander in and make off with Alice, like those dingoes in Australia. She was probably being unfair to both dingoes and Australia, but she couldn't risk it. Locked doors kept the dingoes out, and that's all there was to it, even if she didn't know what a dingo actually was. She took out her phone, searched the Internet, found a picture of a baby dingo and now she really wanted a baby dingo for a pet."
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"Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter."
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"It has pleased and interested me to see how I could get along under difficult circumstances and with so much discomfort but as I say I was not sent out here to improve my temper or my health or to make me more content with my good things in the East."
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"Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must destroy the opposition."
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"The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer."
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"Divorce is a declaration of independence with only two signers."
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"We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest."
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"You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job."
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"Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness."
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"Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand."
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"Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself."
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"My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation."
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"It's not a case of the glass being half full or half empty; more that we tipped a whole half-pint into an empty pint pot. I had to see how much was there, though, and now I know."
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"Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers."
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"True solidarity is only possible among the solitary."
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"Human beings are ultimately nothing but carriers-passageways- for genes. They ride us into the ground like racehorses from generation to generation. Genes don't think about what constitutes good or evil. They don't care whether we are happy or unhappy. We're just means to an end for them. The only thing they think about is what is most efficient for them."
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"Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do."
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"Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it."
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"Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years."
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"The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do."
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"Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research and write about whatever I wanted to."
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"I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it."
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"If you treat with courtesy your equal, who is privileged to resent an impertinence, how much more cautious should you be to your dependents, from whom you demand a respectful demeanor."
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"There's no need to look back. What's behind you is smaller than what's in front you."
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"Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language."
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"Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England."
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"A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can."
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