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Quotes by Writer
"There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his."
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"The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition."
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"I stand out not because I am six feet tall,But because I feel six feet tall."
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"Money!It's all about money!It's all it ever is these days!"
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"Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as writer."
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"He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead."
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"Create inclusion - with simple mindfulness that others might have a different reality from your own."
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"It's not as if our lives are simply divided into light and dark. There's a shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the shadows is what a healthy intelligence does."
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"Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face."
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"You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you."
Love,
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"It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes."
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"She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when.""
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"I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy."
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"Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate."
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"The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read."
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"Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
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"You are a beautiful person, Doctor. Clearheaded. Strong. But you seem always to be dragging your heart along the ground. From now on, little by little, you must prepare yourself to face death. If you devote all of your future energy to living, you will not be able to die well. You must begin to shift gears, a little at a time. Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value."--Nimit in "Thailand."
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"I'll keep doing it until I die or the audiences die."
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"An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along."
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"But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence."
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"Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them."
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"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human."
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"What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us... what good are we if we don't help as much as we can in that destruction?"
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"Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking."
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"The transformation scene, where man is becoming insect and insect has become at least man and beyond that - a flying, godlike, shimmering, diaphanous, beautiful creature."
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"A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair."
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"You know when Jerry Ford gets the best joke, you know you're in trouble."
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"Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing."
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"It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing."
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"Night descended on Roarhaven like a woolly blanket of blackness with holes in it that were the stars."
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"There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American."
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"There is something very basic to the sense of listening. The sense of hearing is the only one that operates totally from vibrations, without other physical or chemical reactions to receive the sensations."
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