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Quotes by Writer
"The people who influence you are the people who believe in you."
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"People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich."
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"I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation."
7
"Pink colors my world red!"
7
"Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts."
7
"Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all."
7
"It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor."
7
"Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide."
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"Insanity is a gradual process - don't rush it."
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"There isn't a need to sugar coat life anymore, Cant we see we live through enough lies, deciet and painful realities to create more, by stagnating the growth of the ones your suppose to make an Impact on and more importantly yourself. Let life be funny, but never a joke."
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"You are either born a writer or you are not."
7
"Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one's painful self through the world.But being, being is happiness. Being: Becoming a fountain, a fountain on which the universe falls like warm rain."
7
"Your life, your achievement, your happiness, your person are of paramount importance. Live up to your highest vision of yourself no matter what the circumstances you might encounter. An exalted view of self-esteem is a man's most admirable quality."
7
"I think men mostly have to learn to be anarchists. Women don't have to learn.Vokep shook his head grimly. "It's the kids, he said. "Having babies. Makes 'em propertarians. They won't let go. He sighed. "Touch and go, brother, that's the rule. Don't ever let yourself be owned."
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"Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether."
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"It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that."
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"Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning has become lost to us they no longer have even a name. The story on the other hand can never be lost from its place in the world for it is that place."
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"Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person."
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"Loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they too, fade away."
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"I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution."
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"Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly."
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"They dig holes from time to time,' the Colonel explains. 'It is probably for them what chess is for me. It has no special meaning, does not transport them anywhere. All of us dig at our own pure holes. We have nothing to achieve by our activities, nowhere to get to. Is there not something marvelous about this? We hurt no one and no one gets hurt. No victory, no defeat."
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"What good is power when you're too wise to use it?"
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"During the next 90 days, people are going to be more open to the Gospel than in years. It is God's responsibility to make people receptive; it is our responsibility to sow the seed."
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"Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted."
6
"I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington."
6
"Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat."
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"The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere."
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"Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form."
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"Sometimes what you're most afraid of doing is the very thing that will set you free."
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"There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody."
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"The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families."
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