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Quotes by Writer
"It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country."
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"But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in."
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"You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one."
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"To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air."
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"If you've really loved a book, or a movie for that matter, really loved it, what you want is that same book again, but as if you've never read it. And when you get something unfamiliar, you feel betrayed."
Want,
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"Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful."
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"A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far."
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"There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail."
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"Complaining is a complete waste of one's energy. Those who complain the most accomplish the least."
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"Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses."
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"Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent."
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"You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end."
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"The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure."
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"The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself."
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"I love stories with a happy ending, Inspector Me said."
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"In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation."
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"The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep."
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"Your voice is yours, how dare you let another speak for you.Your heart is yours, how dare you give it away, so freely to another you hardly know. Your soul is yours, how dare you ignore its instinctual truth. Your mind is yours, don't let the world make it negative.You are the master of your fate, you are the creator of your destiny, don't hand the keys to anyone, rather open the door and welcome them to taste your paradise within."
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"I think my fascination is less with genre figures than with writers in general."
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"We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage."
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"I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it."
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"Television doesn't want to admit it has those dreadful roach ads on anyway."
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"Sometimes what you think is an end is only a beginning. And that wouldn't do at all."
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"Where do consequences lead? Depends on the escort."
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"They decided that unpaid leave could only be granted through the decision of a council that consisted almost entirely of scientists who couldn't understand my reasons for wanting to go so. They said no, no unpaid. So I immediately resigned."
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"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand."
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"Keating stood still, because he understood for the first time what it was that artists spoke about when they spoke of beauty."
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"My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff."
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"I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels."
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"Dark nights are unpleasant," "Yes, for strangers to travel,""The clouds are heavy.""Yes, a storm is approaching."
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"Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly."
Envy,
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"When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on the bricks, don't you think?"
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"I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume."
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