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Quotes by Writer
"Sometimes I think the one form of experience people are incapable of learning from is the political experience."
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"You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute."
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"Sooner or later in life, we will all take our own turn being in the position we once had someone else in."
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"In the plains the grass grows tall, since there is no one to cut it. There is no one to water it either."
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"The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical...There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness."
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"In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find - if it's a good novel - that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little... But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed."
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"You say your life is your own. But can you dare to ignore the chance that you are taking part in a gigantic drama under the orders of a divine Producer? Your cue may not come till the end of the play--it may be totally unimportant, a mere walking-on part, but upon it may hang the issues of the play if you do not give the cue to another player. The whole edifice may crumple. You as you, may not matter to anyone in the world, but you as a person in a particular place may matter unimaginably."
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"Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem-neat, plausible, and wrong."
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"Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time."
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"Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren't real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books."
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"To exemplify, -a beautiful glossy nut, which, blessed with original strength, has outlived all the storms of autumn. Not a puncture, not a weak spot any where. -This nut... while so many of its brethren have fallen and been trodden under foot, is still in possession of all the happiness that a hazel-nut can be supposed capable of."
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"Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves."
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"Corrival looked around. 'So is this it? Is everyone here? Erskine, maybe you should start the ball rolling. I have places to go and things to do.''Me?' Ravel asked. 'Why do I have to start it? You're the most respected mage here. You start it, or Skulduggery.'Skulduggery shook his head. 'I can't start it. I don't like most of these people. I might start shooting."
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"Try to choose carefully, Arren, when the great choices must be made. {...} 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."
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"Most people don't realize, I really have no faith in politics. I'm not a politician. If I thought you could change human hearts by laws, I would, but I don't."
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"Somewhere on the Earth tonight, my Tylla, there is a Man with a Lever, which, when he pulls it, Will Save The World. The man is now unemployed. His switch gathers dust. He himself plays pinochle."
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"I'm always suspicious of disinterested interest."
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"I was coming to see the heavier your heart got, the strongest you had to be to keep carrying it around."
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"But one way or another competing and weeding takes place . . . or a race goes downhill."
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"For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones."
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"The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."
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"We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation."
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"You could see her thoughts swimming around in her eyes, like fish - some bright, some dark, some fast, quick, some slow and easy, and sometimes, like when she looked up where Earth was, being nothing but colour and nothing else."
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"We've gotta reinvest in space travel. We should've never left the moon."
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"He gave us taste buds, then filled the world with incredible flavors like chocolate and cinnamon and all the other spices. He gave us eyes to perceive color and then filled the world with a rainbow of shades. He gave us sensitive ears and then filled the world with rhythms and music. Your capacity for enjoyment is evidence of God's love for you. He could have made the world tasteless, colorless, and silent. The Bible says that God 'richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.' He didn't have to do it, but he did, because He loves us."
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"Predictions are uttered by prophets (free of charge); by clairvoyants (who usually charge a fee, and are therefore more honored in their day than prophets); and by futurologists (salaried). Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists. A novelist's business is lying."
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"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"
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"How is it that we have over 6 billion people in the world and half of them feel alone?"
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"There! Now we're friends!" declared the minx. "Say you're sorry about my sister -""I am desolated!""That's a good boy!"
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"So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit."
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"The human society has evolved war as a cultural institution, like the science of astronomy, or mathematics. War is a part of our lives, a career, a respected vocation. Bright, alert young men and women move into it, putting their shoulders to the wheel as they did in the time of Nebuchadnezzar. It has always been so."
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"We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones."
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"Talking about one's feelings defeats the purpose of having those feelings. Once you try to put the human experience into words, it becomes little more than a spectator sport. Everything must have a cause, and a name. Every random thought must have a root in something else."
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"Understanding languages and other cultures builds bridges. It is the fastest way to bring the world closer together and to Truth. Through understanding, people will be able to see their similarities before differences."
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