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Quotes by Writer
"Purposefully look for something beautiful today."
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"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: 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, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close."
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"I am somewhat exhausted, I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?"
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"A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her."
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"What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?"
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"You know how this is:if I lookat the crystal moon, at the red branchof the slow autumn at my window,if I touchnear the firethe impalpable ashor the wrinkled body of the log,everything carries me to you,as if everything that exists,aromas, light, metals,were little boatsthat sailtoward those isles of yours that wait for me."
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"It's like Samson and Delilah: watch your back, because trouble could be the person you're sleeping with."
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"No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience."
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"The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility."
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"A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three."
Will,
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"A sick man that gets talking about himself a woman that gets talking about her baby and an author that begins reading out of his own book never know when to stop."
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"Absolute and entire ugliness is rare."
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"With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be."
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"She ignored my observation. This generally happens with me. Show me a woman, I sometimes say, and I will show you someone who is going to ignore my observations."
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"I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room."
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"Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear."
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"Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones."
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"I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country."
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"My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose."
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"No one cares about the artist Kafka, who troubles us with his puzzling aesthetic, because we'd rather have Kafka as the fusion of experience and work, the Kafka who had a difficult relationship with his father and didn't know how to deal with women."
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"The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me."
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"My sadness is beautiful. It infuses everything I do. It is at the core of my identity and always has been, just as happiness is in some people. I refuse to be told that it's a flaw. I will not mute it with medications for the sake of society. I will hold it close to me and celebrate it rightfully while the rest of the world fails to see it for what it is and it will be their loss."
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"Writers, all the good ones, are Natural Born Liars."
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"Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them."
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"There are no quick fixes in your life. If you want to live a happier life you have to make your actions happier every day. You need to be determined to make your life better if you want it to be so."
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"Consciousness of unconsciousness."
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"That's what the cat said to the canary when he swallowed him - 'You'll be all right.'"
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"Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement."
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"We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now."
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"And think about the precise meaning of that term: a Narcissus is not proud. A proud man has disdain for other people, he undervalues them. The Narcissus overvalues them, because in every person's eyes he sees his own image, and wants to embellish it. So he takes nice care of all his mirrors."
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"The young girl inspected her flounces and smoothed her ribbons again; and Winterbourne presently risked an observation upon the beauty of the view. He was ceasing to be embarrassed, for he had begun to perceive that she was not in the least embarrassed herself."
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"Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity."
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