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Quotes by Writer
"What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be."
105
"Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none."
104
"Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious."
104
"Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit."
103
"Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?"
102
"Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them."
101
"The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty."
101
"Sex in a woman's world has the same currency a penny has in a man's. Every penny saved is a penny earned in one world and in the next every sexual adventure is a literary experience."
99
"Searching for what I need, and I don't even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man to a man, and I saw that all of them together have less than me who has nothing, and that I left to each of them a bit of that what I don't have and I've been searching for."
99
"We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child."
98
"The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism."
96
"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."
96
"Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status."
95
"I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see."
94
"As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are."
92
"Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics."
92
"What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in."
91
"The shortest distance between two people is a story."
91
"Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric."
Time,
89
"If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic."
89
"I once took a city with five men and a lame goat. If I can do that, you can convince the necromancers to pledge themselves to you. Do this or die."
88
"Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage."
87
"A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise."
86
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