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Quotes by Writer
"Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones."
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"When a heart mends it doesn't let the same people in twice."
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"Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success."
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"Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object."
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"We believe... that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts."
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"You keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you."
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"Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores."
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"I was dying to have a cat. But they wouldn't let me. My mother hated them. Not once in my life have I managed to get something I really wanted. Not once. Can you believe it? You can't understand what it's like to live like that. When you get used to that kind of life--of never having anything you want--then you stop knowing what it is you want."
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"I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know."
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"I understand perfectly. Darquesse isn't a separate entity. She isn't another person. She's you. If you make the wrong choices, if you stop loving the people who love you, if you allow the world to twist and turn and change you, then yes, the future we've seen will come to pass. But if you fight, and if you kick, and struggle, and refuse to give in to the apathy, or the anger, or the hopelessness, then you'll change the future, and you'll walk your own path. And I'll be right there beside you, Valkyrie. I'll always be beside you."
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"Strange dreams are better than no dreams at all."
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"Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way."
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"All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days."
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"I suppose half the time Shakespeare just shoved down anything that came into his head."
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"When your car needs gas, you go to a gas station and get back on the road. You don't stay at the gas station for the rest of your life. Learn to rest and never to quit. Remember this while you journey through life."
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"There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow."
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"I don't know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move beyond imitation and discover what you can write that no one else can - that is, find out who you are and write that in an appropriate narrative and style."
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"Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them."
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"Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies."
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"Cigarette smoking is injurious to health,After all it's pretty good than peoples.They injurious to Soul."
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"Imagine trying to live in a world dominated by dihydrogen oxide, a compound that has no taste or smell and is so variable in its properties that it is generally benign but at other times swiftly lethal. Depending on its state, it can scald you or freeze you. In the presence of certain organic molecules it can form carbonic acids so nasty that they can strip the leaves from trees and eat the faces off statuary. In bulk, when agitated, it can strike with a fury that no human edifice could withstand. Even for those who have learned to live with it, it is an often murderous substance. We call it water."
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"Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure."
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"I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone."
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"People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune."
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"To appreciate life's small moments, it helps to have a sense the whole can never be made perfect."
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"That's rather a broad idea," I remarked. "One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature," he answered."
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"I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you."
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"Alexander Smollett, master; David Livesey, ship's doctor; Abraham Gray, carpenter's mate; John Trelawney, owner; John Hunter and Richard Joyce, owner's servants, landsmen--being all that is left faithful of the ship's company--with stores for ten days at short rations, came ashore this day and flew British colours on the log-house in Treasure Island. Thomas Redruth, owner's servant, landsman, shot by the mutineers; James Hawkins, cabin boy--'And at the same time, I was wondering over poor Jim Hawkins' fate."
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"Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that - and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut."
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"There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our profession? I know well that I have it in me to make my name famous. No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done. And what is the result? There is no crime to detect, or, at most, some bungling villainy with a motive so transparent that even a Scotland Yard official can see through it."
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"Vision and purpose fix our character."
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"He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to peer inquisitively into his guest's eyes for signs of boredom or mockery, being intelligent enough to be unable fully to believe in his own claims to significance. He might, in a past life, have been a particularly canny and sharp-tongued royal advisor."
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"Imagination releases power to achieve goals."
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