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Quotes by Writer
"Imagination releases power to achieve goals."
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"Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man."
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"I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time."
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"What a strange thing it is to wake up to a milk-white overcast June morning! The sun is hidden by a thick cotton blanket of clouds, and the air is vapor-filled and hazy with a concentration of blooming scent.The world is somnolent and cool, in a temporary reprieve from the normal heat and radiance.But the sensation of illusion is strong. Because the sun can break through the clouds at any moment . . .What a soft thoughtful time.In this illusory gloom, like a night-blooming flower, let your imagination bloom in a riot of color."
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"Don't say you're a writer if you're not writing. Even if you're writing, don't call yourself a writer. Say instead, 'I write.' It's the verb that's important, not the noun."
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"Money said, "I warn you that ignorance thrives on hysteria."
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"Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard."
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"We are all bits and pieces of history and literature and international law."
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"Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is."(Sass: know, be aware of, meet, have sex with; hoopy: really together guy; frood: really amazingly together guy.)"
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"I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter."
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"He took her hand in his and knelt before her. Valkyrie looked at him. He was serious. (...)'Dude, I'm sixteen.''I love you.''That doesn't make me any older. Stand up.''Not until you say yes.''You're going to shuffle around on your knees for the rest of your life? Stand up, for God's sake.''Be my wife.' 'Shut the hell up."
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"It is conventional to call "monster" any blending of dissonant elements. I call "monster" every original inexhaustible beauty."
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"Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed."
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"When you feel sad, you are participating in a venerable experience, to which I, this monument, am dedicated. Your sense of loss and disappointment, of frustrated hopes and grief at your own inadequacy, elevate you to serious company. Do not ignore of throw away your grief."
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"Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience."
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"I sat on a toilet watching the water run thinking what an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile effort to recapture the comforts you wouldn't have lost if you hadn't left home in the first place."
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"War is ruthless murder, yet it is justifiable only when a country is defending its turf from outside intruders. To convince soldiers to attack another country for no other reason than greed or strategic positioning requires creativity. And most of the time, soldiers do not really know whether they are on the side of the attackers or the defenders. This is where people misunderstand war. When you attack another country for its resources, you are the pirate. But when you protect your country from the pirates, you are the hero."
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"Right now, we need writers who know the difference between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art. Developing written material to suit sales strategies in order to maximize corporate profit and advertising revenue is not the same thing as responsible book publishing or authorship."
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"Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there."
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"All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and if I do, it's not very loud. That doesn't mean I don't like the movie."
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"The most ridiculous activity of human mind is questioning. Cognition of reality surpasses both question and answer, however ingenious."
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"I remember you with my soul clenched in that sadness of mine that you know."
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"It was one of those cases where you approve the broad, general principle of an idea but can't help being in a bit of a twitter at the prospect of putting it into practical effect. I explained this to Jeeves, and he said much the same thing had bothered Hamlet."
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"Love, endure, persist... Everything will return to you, innocent fool!"
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"I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me."
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"Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money."
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"I make art when I can't gather the words to say."
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"It's true though: time moves in its own special way in the middle of the night," the bartender says, loudly striking a book match and lighting a cigarette. "You can't fight it."
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"There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us."
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"He has half the deed done who has made a beginning."
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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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