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Quotes by Writer
"He had come to find out that reality was more than a dream, much more than a dream!"
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"The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession."
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"Besides being the world the kind of sadness that can not be expressed in tears. You can not explain it to anyone. Unable to take any shape, settles quietly in the bottom of the heart as snow during the windless night."
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"I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste."
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"The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor."
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"I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them."
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"We must content ourselves with the mystery, the absurdity, the contradictions, the hostility, but also the generosity that our environment offers us. It's not much, but it's always better than the deadly, defeatist certainty of the paranoid."
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"Nothing could be recorded in those days except by aiming a movie camera at the television screen. It was at least another 10 years before they had any kind of recording medium."
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"There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age."
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"You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there."
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"John Jones may be described as 'one of the has beens'."
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"If I had to put a name to it, I would wish that all my books were entertainments. I think the first thing you've got to do is grab the reader by the ear, and make him sit down and listen. Make him laugh, make him feel. We all want to be entertained at a very high level."
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"I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me."
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"Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin."
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"Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them."
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"The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."
Life,
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"The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations."
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"Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table."
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"Until then her view of time was the present moving forward and devouring the future; she either feared its swiftness (when she was awaiting something difficult) or rebelled at its slowness (when she was awaiting something fine). Now time has a very different look; it is no longer the conquering present capturing the future; it is the present conquered and captured and carried off by the past. She sees a young man disconnecting himself from her life and going away, forevermore out of her reach. Mesmerized, all she can do is watch this piece of her life move off; all she can do is watch it and suffer. She is experiencing a brand-new feeling called nostalgia."
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"If the laughter of the audience was malicious we wouldn't show it."
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"As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough - I wrote faster than I would write a letter - two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it."
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"I'm a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion."
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