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Quotes by Writer
"Unless you are a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible."
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"Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together."
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"Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves."
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"The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe outside is inside."
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"You cannot force things apart that are bound at the heart."
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"My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant."
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"Perfect, faultless, in ruins, yes, but perfect,nevertheless."
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"To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself."
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"Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt that thematic closure is never attainable."
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"Perhaps we can recognize our way out of patterns rather than repeating our way out of them."
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"Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost."
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"Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself."
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"You wouldn't believe that so much could change just because a relationship ended."
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"While Fledging is a different type of book, The Parable series serve as cautionary tales. I wrote the Parable books because of the direction of the country. You can call it save the world fiction, but it clearly doesn't save anything."
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"Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent."
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"Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself."
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"Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight."
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"The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me to do more."
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"The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being."
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"I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers; thanks to your love a certain solid fragrence risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body. and: No one can stop the river of your hands, your eyes and their sleepiness, my dearest. You are the trembling of time, which passes between the vertical light and the darkening sky. and: From the stormy archipelagoes I brought my windy accordian, waves of crazy rain, the habitual slowness of natural things: they made up my wild heart."
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"Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."
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"Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper."
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"One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised."
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"I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership."
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"The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down."
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"If you're alive, you're creative."
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"The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do."
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"It was at that agethat poetry came in search of me."
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"Summer coming like a car from down the highway."
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"I'd rather see folks doubt what's true than accept what isn't."
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"Te amo sin saber como, ni cuándo, ni de donde, te amo directamente sin problemas ni orgullo: así te amo porque no sé amar de otra manera, sino así de este modo en que no soy ni eres, tan cerca que tu mano sobre mi pecho es mía, tan cerca que se cierran tus ojos con mi sueño."
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"Feminism is a good venue for getting yourself across as much as for getting your point across."
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"It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better."
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"Martin Luther King Jr. really understood the role of the churches when he said, 'The church is not meant to be the master of the state.' We don't sort of take power and grab the levers of government and impose our agenda down people's throats."
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"Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another."
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