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Quotes by Writer
"It doesn't matter what happens to you. What matters is, what are you going to do about it? Are you going to complain and shrink or are you going to step into your greatness?"
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"The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair."
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"Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried."
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"There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all."
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"Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere."
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"We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem."
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"No, I don't think I've been defiled. But I haven't been saved, either. There's nobody who can save me right now, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. The world looks totally empty to me. Everything I see around me looks fake. The only thing thay isn't fake is that gooshy thing inside me."
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"King Arthur was one of my heroes - I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle's cane for the sword Excalibur."
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"I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money."
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"There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on."
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"If two wrongs don't make a right, try three."
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"First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst."
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"For eons, humans have struggled to find less destructive ways of living together."
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"Artists think along the edges of the box, because that's where things get done. That's where the audience is, that's where the means of production are available, and that's where you can make an impact."
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"Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as they were by the experience of a woman who had lost everything because of her child. Tereza would listen and believe that being a mother was the highest value in life and that being a mother was a great sacrifice. If a mother was Sacrifice personified, then a daughter was Guilt, with no possibility of redress."
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"My passion is New York and the vitality that makes it special."
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"Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it."
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"I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it."
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"If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful."
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"The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can't accept that."
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"A man who would be intimidated by me is exactly the kind of man I would have no interest in."
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"Love is just a system for getting someone to call you Darling after sex."
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"Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death."
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"Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough."
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"I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical."
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"If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere."
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"The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame."
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"Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old."
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